How To Install python2-pdfminer on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-pdfminer on CentOS 7.
What is python2-pdfminer
PDFMiner is a tool for extracting information from PDF documents. Unlike other PDF-related tools, it focuses entirely on getting and analyzing text data. PDFMiner allows to obtain the exact location of texts in a page, as well as other information such as fonts or lines. It includes a PDF converter that can transform PDF files into other text formats (such as HTML). It has an extensible PDF parser that can be used for other purposes instead of text analysis. This is actually pdfminer.six, a backwards-compatible fork of PDFMiner using six for Python 2+3 compatibility.
We can use yum or dnf to install python2-pdfminer on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python2-pdfminer.
Install python2-pdfminer on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install python2-pdfminer using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python2-pdfminer
Install python2-pdfminer on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install python2-pdfminer using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python2-pdfminer
How To Uninstall python2-pdfminer on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the python2-pdfminer package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove python2-pdfminer
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-pdfminer on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
