"no module named PyPDF2" error

Question

I use Spyder, with Python 2.7, on a windows 10. I was able to install the PyPDF2 package with a conda command from my prompt. I said installation complete. Yet, If I try to run a simple import command:

import PyPDF2

I get the error:

ImportError: No module named PyPDF2

How can I fix this?

Solution 1

If you use python3 maybe

apt-get install python3-pypdf2

Solution 2

In my case, I was trying to import 'pyPdf2' instead of 'PyPDF2'. Observe the case.

import PyPDF2

is correct.

Solution 3

This is the case which I followed for python3. For python2 try with pip:

pip install PyPDF2

Solution 4

I faced the same problem. But, In my case,

• I previously installed Python3 separately from official website and was using without any issues

• Then later I installed Anaconda package distribution software which itself has another Python3 installed in corresponding directory.

So, when I installed PyPDF2, it installed normally and while importing throws an error, because the base path of python3 was changed to be used with Anaconda.

Then I opened Anaconda prompt and installed PyPDF2 there and tried to import. It worked!!

Then I can use it from any command prompt in my Windows PC. Or else you can delete Anaconda and everything works normally. Its just a conflict of two pythons in my pc.

Conclusion: Try any overlapping softwares in your PC(in my case Anaconda prompt) and try their CMD to install packages and import. If I wanted to install any package I have to go to Anaconda prompt and install it and importing that modules works anywhere without any error. So from now on wards I'm only using Anaconda prompt as my default installation prompt.

Solution 5

I had this problem too when I tried to import PyPDF2 like this:

sudo apt-get install python-pypdf2

When running some simple script with import PyPDF2, I would get an error like this:

ImportError: No module named PyPDF2

The solution was to also install pdfmerge, like this:

pip install pdfmerge

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Comments

[Jithin]

have you tried with pip ? Like pip install PyPDF2

[Tejas Tank]

Yes. python 3 matters for pypdf2.

[noiivice]

Funny enough this simple fix worked for me. I was importing pyPDF2 and the upper case mattered.

[Kamil Naja]

Works very well

[Prasanna]

I also had the same issue, this does solve my problem. but I need to install PyPDF2 with this command conda install -c conda-forge pypdf2.