diff --git a/beancount_import/source/ultipro_google_statement.py b/beancount_import/source/ultipro_google_statement.py
index 82827c55..09d8f83d 100644
--- a/beancount_import/source/ultipro_google_statement.py
+++ b/beancount_import/source/ultipro_google_statement.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 """Parses a Google employee PDF pay statement from Ultipro."""
-
+import os
 from typing import NamedTuple, Dict, Any, List, Optional, Tuple, Union, Callable, Match
 import datetime
 import collections
@@ -295,7 +295,11 @@ def parse_hours(x: Optional[str]) -> Optional[Decimal]:
 
 
 def parse_filename(path: str):
-    text = subprocess.check_output(['pdftotext', '-raw', path, '-']).decode()
+    PDFTOTEXT_ENV='PDFTOTEXT_BINARY'
+    pdftotext='pdftotext'
+    if os.getenv(PDFTOTEXT_ENV):
+        pdftotext=os.getenv(PDFTOTEXT_ENV)
+    text = subprocess.check_output([pdftotext, '-raw', path, '-']).decode()
     return parse(text)