Subprocess Popen And Pipe In Python

The following code prints an empty line as an output which is false. The problem is not in the permissions, since I tested the command with 777 permissions for the pdf -file. How c

Solution 1:

pdftotext creates a file by default. To send the result to standard output, use:

pdftotext file.pdf -

or in Python:

output = Popen(['pdftotext', '/home/aal/Desktop/lkn_pdf/appa.pdf', '-'], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0]