[Bug]: cannot import name 'PDFTextSeq' from 'pdfminer.pdfdevice'

[user1823]

What were you trying to do?

ocrmypdf was working till recently. Now suddenly, I am seeing this error when trying to use it.

Where are you installing from?

PyPI (pip, poetry, pipx, etc.)

What operating system are you working on?

Windows

Relevant log output

C:\Users\User>ocrmypdf --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "C:\Program Files\Python312\Scripts\ocrmypdf.exe\__main__.py", line 4, in <module>
  File "C:\Program Files\Python312\Lib\site-packages\ocrmypdf\__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
    from ocrmypdf import helpers, hocrtransform, pdfa, pdfinfo
  File "C:\Program Files\Python312\Lib\site-packages\ocrmypdf\pdfinfo\__init__.py", line 9, in <module>
    from ocrmypdf.pdfinfo.info import Colorspace, Encoding, PageInfo, PdfInfo
  File "C:\Program Files\Python312\Lib\site-packages\ocrmypdf\pdfinfo\info.py", line 43, in <module>
    from ocrmypdf.pdfinfo.layout import LTStateAwareChar, get_page_analysis, get_text_boxes
  File "C:\Program Files\Python312\Lib\site-packages\ocrmypdf\pdfinfo\layout.py", line 23, in <module>
    from pdfminer.pdfdevice import PDFTextSeq
ImportError: cannot import name 'PDFTextSeq' from 'pdfminer.pdfdevice' (C:\Program Files\Python312\Lib\site-packages\pdfminer\pdfdevice.py)

[user1823]

I fixed the issue by

• uninstalling pdfminer and pdfminer.six,
• running py -m pip cache purge, and then
• reinstalling ocrmypdf.

I am not sure whether there is something that needs to be done on your part (e.g., improving the error message, adding more checks in the dependencies, etc.).

[jbarlow83]

Unless you have steps to reproduce this issue, I wouldn't know where to start to produce this issue.

[user1823]

I don't have the exact reproduction steps but I think that this issue happened after I installed another package that had pdfminer as a dependency.