Installation

Official package

pdf2image has a pip package with a matching name.

pip install pdf2image

From source

If you want to add a new language The easiest way to use the tool is by cloning the official repo.

git clone https://github.com/Belval/pdf2image

Then install the package with python3 setup.py install

Installing poppler

Poppler is the underlying project that does the magic in pdf2image. You can check if you already have it installed by calling pdftoppm -h in your terminal/cmd.

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install poppler-utils

Archlinux

sudo pacman -S poppler

MacOS

brew install poppler

Windows

Download the latest poppler package from @oschwartz10612 version which is the most up-to-date.
Move the extracted directory to the desired place on your system
Add the bin/ directory to your PATH
Test that all went well by opening cmd and making sure that you can call pdftoppm -h