pdftotext: error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Since this project uses poppler’s CPP interface, you also need the libpoppler-cpp-dev package

I’m using this in a Dockerized environment and simply doing apt-get install libpoppler-cpp-dev did it for me thanks @jalan !

@lhyGit libpoppler-cpp-dev is one of the packages needed on Debian-based systems. For macOS, the packages you need are installed via brew install pkg-config poppler

If you still have issues after installing those, can you provide the output of pip --verbose install pdftotext here?

Collecting pdftotext
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/21/35/60094dbadd9de2035873390b1cac25e01da605844eba6a07a53a82fa4adc/pdftotext-2.1.1.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: pdftotext
  Building wheel for pdftotext (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -u -c 'import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-O5algo/pdftotext/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-oMHm6f --python-tag cp27:
  ERROR: running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_ext
  building 'pdftotext' extension
  creating build
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7
  x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fPIC -DPOPPLER_CPP_AT_LEAST_0_30_0=1 -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c pdftotext.cpp -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/pdftotext.o -Wall
  cc1plus: warning: command line option ‘-Wstrict-prototypes’ is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++
  In file included from pdftotext.cpp:5:0:
  /usr/local/include/poppler/cpp/poppler-page.h:39:22: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘...’ before ‘&&’ token
       text_box(text_box&&);
                        ^
  /usr/local/include/poppler/cpp/poppler-page.h:39:24: error: invalid constructor; you probably meant ‘poppler::text_box (const poppler::text_box&)’
       text_box(text_box&&);
                          ^
  /usr/local/include/poppler/cpp/poppler-page.h:40:33: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘...’ before ‘&&’ token
       text_box& operator=(text_box&&);
                                   ^
  /usr/local/include/poppler/cpp/poppler-page.h:70:10: error: ‘unique_ptr’ in namespace ‘std’ does not name a template type
       std::unique_ptr<text_box_data> m_data;
            ^
  error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for pdftotext
  Running setup.py clean for pdftotext
Failed to build pdftotext
Installing collected packages: pdftotext
  Running setup.py install for pdftotext ... error
    ERROR: Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -u -c 'import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-O5algo/pdftotext/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-TF1_ts/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    ERROR: running install
    running build
    running build_ext
    building 'pdftotext' extension
    creating build
    creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7
    x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fPIC -DPOPPLER_CPP_AT_LEAST_0_30_0=1 -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c pdftotext.cpp -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/pdftotext.o -Wall
    cc1plus: warning: command line option ‘-Wstrict-prototypes’ is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++
    In file included from pdftotext.cpp:5:0:
    /usr/local/include/poppler/cpp/poppler-page.h:39:22: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘...’ before ‘&&’ token
         text_box(text_box&&);
                          ^
    /usr/local/include/poppler/cpp/poppler-page.h:39:24: error: invalid constructor; you probably meant ‘poppler::text_box (const poppler::text_box&)’
         text_box(text_box&&);
                            ^
    /usr/local/include/poppler/cpp/poppler-page.h:40:33: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘...’ before ‘&&’ token
         text_box& operator=(text_box&&);
                                     ^
    /usr/local/include/poppler/cpp/poppler-page.h:70:10: error: ‘unique_ptr’ in namespace ‘std’ does not name a template type
         std::unique_ptr<text_box_data> m_data;
              ^
    error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command "/usr/bin/python -u -c 'import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-O5algo/pdftotext/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-TF1_ts/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-O5algo/pdftotext/

@GD-A-150800 Please don’t post new unrelated questions on a closed issue.

I’m sorry to say that there is no support for Windows. The relevant issue in this case is #16.