title: Installing Poppler for PDF text extraction
body: <p>I am trying to follow this blog in trying to extract text from an invoice pdf file. My text extraction requires extraction specific fields of the invoice. </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://kaijento.github.io/2017/03/27/pdf-scraping-gwinnetttaxcommissioner.publicaccessnow.com/#pdftotext" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://kaijento.github.io/2017/03/27/pdf-scraping-gwinnetttaxcommissioner.publicaccessnow.com/#pdftotext</a></p>
  
  <p>I have tried pdfminer, textract but they all extract the text as jumbled and its difficult to extract text after that. </p>
  
  <p>I came across Poppler package download below: </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html</a></p>
  
  <p>Looks like its a .tar file. And not a python package. </p>
  
  <p>Am not sure how to use this .tar file to extract the package and use it in Python. </p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions how I install this on my mac and then use it programatically in python to run a bunch of pdf files through this to extract data. </p>