I'm trying to read a pdf file with the slate library but it throws this error:
import slate
pdf = 'tabla9.pdf'
with open(pdf,encoding="utf-8") as f:
doc = slate.PDF(f)
for page in doc[:2]:
print(page)
complete error:
File "C:\Users\user\libro5.py", line 7, in <module>
doc = slate.PDF(f)
File "C:\Python3\lib\slate\classes.py", line 52, in __init__
self.parser = PDFParser(file)
File "C:\Python3\lib\site-packages\pdfminer\pdfparser.py", line 646, in
__init__
PSStackParser.__init__(self, fp)
File "C:\Python3\lib\site-packages\pdfminer\psparser.py", line 189, in
__init__
PSBaseParser.__init__(self, fp)
File "C:\Python3\lib\site-packages\pdfminer\psparser.py", line 134, in
__init__
data = fp.read()
File "C:\Python3\lib\codecs.py", line 322, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 10:
invalid continuation byte
classes.py
, line 52:
class PDF(list):
def __init__(self, file, password='', just_text=1, check_extractable=True, char_margin=1.0, line_margin=0.1, word_margin=0.1):
self.parser = PDFParser(file)
pdfparser.py
, line 646:
def __init__(self, fp):
PSStackParser.__init__(self, fp)
psparser.py
, line 189:
class PSStackParser(PSBaseParser):
def __init__(self, fp):
PSBaseParser.__init__(self, fp)
psparser.py
, line 134:
class PSBaseParser:
"""Most basic PostScript parser that performs only tokenization.
"""
def __init__(self, fp):
data = fp.read()
File "C:\Python3\lib\codecs.py", line 322, in decode (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 10: invalid continuation byte:
def decode(self, input, final=False):
# decode input (taking the buffer into account)
data = self.buffer + input
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
I'm using Python 3.7 on Windows 10.
A PDF file is binary, it's inappropriate to open it in text mode with an encoding.
Try:
with open(pdf, "rb") as f: