Import Error: Cannot Import Name 'Open_Filename' from 'Pdfminer. Utils'

Question

On importing pdfminer.high_level, I am getting an error cannot import name open_filename from pdfminer.utils.

I tried following steps:

pip3 install pdfminer.six
import pdfminer
import pdfminer.high_level

(and encountered error on this line)

ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-6-772e4980255d> in <module>
----> 1 import pdfminer.high_level

~\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pdfminer\high_level.py in <module>
     12 from .pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter
     13 from .pdfpage import PDFPage
---> 14 from .utils import open_filename
     15 
     16 

ImportError: cannot import name 'open_filename' from 'pdfminer.utils'

Accepted Answer

Hi I had the same issue.

I had installed both pdfminer and pdfminer.six. Please keep pdfminer.six and uninstall pdfminer with:

pip uninstall pdfminer

Answer 2

I faced a similar problem: cannot import name 'open_filename' from 'pdfminer.utils' when using the langchain cookbook. Problem was python v.3.11x. I downgraded my env to 3.8.18 and it worked.

Answer 3

I had an older version of pdfminer.six. This is the commit that introduced the open_filename method. Make sure your pdfminer.six version is greater than '20200402'.

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