pdfminer on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: February 01,2025

1. Install "pdfminer" effortlessly via AUR with the help of a helper(YAY)

a. Install YAY (https://github.com/Jguer/yay)


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay && makepkg -si
            
                    
    
    Copied

b. Install pdfminer on Arch using YAY

* (Optional) Uninstall pdfminer on Arch using YAY

2. Manually Install "pdfminer" via AUR

a. Ensure you have the base development tools and git installed with:


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                sudo pacman -S --needed
            
                        
                base-devel git
            
                    
    
    Copied

b. Clone pdfminer's git locally


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/pdfminer.git 
            
                        
                ~/pdfminer
            
                    
    
    Copied

c. Go to ~/pdfminer folder and install it


   
    
        
            $
        

        
            
                cd
            
                        
                ~/pdfminer
            
                    
    
    Copied

    

   
    
        
            $
        

        
            
                makepkg -si
            
                    
    
    Copied

3. Information about the pdfminer package on Arch User Repository (AUR)

ID: 688273
Name: pdfminer
PackageBaseID: 99685
PackageBase: pdfminer
Version: 20191125-1
Description: python3 utils to extract, analyze text data of PDF files. Includes pdf2txt, dumppdf, and latin2ascii
URL: http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/
NumVotes: 25
Popularity: 0.886092
OutOfDate: 1704927105
Maintainer: severach
Submitter: severach
FirstSubmitted: 1441843063
LastModified: 1579581024
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/pdfminer.tar.gz