tabula-py ImportError: cannot import name 'read_pdf'

Question

Im trying to use tabula-py to transfer a table from pdf to excel.

When im trying to

from tabula import read_pdf

it says

ImportError: cannot import name 'read_pdf'

All solutions i found say that i have to

pip uninstall tabula
pip3 install tabula-py

https://github.com/chezou/tabula-py/issues/47

Tabula-py - ImportError: No module named tabula

But its still not working for me.

Any ideas?

Solution 1

Maybe this is because of the version of tabula you installed.

If you installed tabula by running:

pip install tabula

You get an old version of tabula (1.0.5) that has the problem with the module .read_pdf(). To fix the problem and get a newer version of tabula, first:

uninstall tabula with the command:

pip uninstall tabula

And install the newer version of tabula with the command:

pip install tabula-py

I think this will solve your problem.

Solution 2

from tabula import wrapper
df = wrapper.read_pdf('my_pdf')

read_pdf is contained within 'wrapper'. Hence you import wrapper and call read_pdf from wrapper.

Solution 3

I solved as follows:

1. upgrade pip to pi3: pip install --upgrade pip --user

pip3 uninstall tabula-py

pip3 install tabula-py

That solved the problem perfectly! Good luck!

Solution 4

There is a chance that you might be testing tabula-py in a module you named tabula.py

This would throw the same exact error because of module import order in Python

Solution 5

Yes! I had this same problem. The file I was using to write the code was named 'tabula.py'. I wrote the code in a new file, with a new name, and had to delete the file named 'tabula.py'.

Once I did that the error went away.

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Comments

[HMD]

Please consider adding some explanation to your answer.

[geekidharsh]

I believe the issue arises becuase of tabula updating the method. Now the method read_pdf sits inside of wrapper.

[yts61]

nope, it doesn't solve the problem, an error comes up : cannot import name 'wrapper' from 'tabula' (/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/tabula/__init_.py)_

[Strayhorn]

It doesn't work. ImportError: cannot import name 'wrapper' from 'tabula' (/tmp/yes/lib/python3.7/site-packages/tabula/__init__.py)

[mah65]

It also solved my problem. However, the important thing was that I had to close CMD, and open again, and run a fresh jupyter notebook (simply restarting jupyter notebook did not work).

[Mauricio]

This did not immediately solve my problem because, I think, I had both tabula and tabula-py install. I had to uninstall both then reinstall tabula-py by itself to get it to work.