title: PDF to text Python 3.6 pdfminer no module named 'pdfminer'
body: <p>I try to use pdfminer.six to convert multiple pdfs in a directory to multiple .txt files using python 3.6.3</p>
  
  <p>I got these error: <strong>ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pdfminer'</strong> when run the codes below. Or, when i run pdf2txt.py filename.pdf, it gives ther<strong>env: python\r: No such file or directory</strong> </p>
  
  <p>I did some research regarding the issue. I have removed the original pdfminer from my pip, currently, it has only the pdfminer.six in my pip. Also, I am running python 3.6.3 on virtualenv.</p>
  
  <p>Below is the code that I run:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from io import StringIO
  from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter
  from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter
  from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
  from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage
  import os
  import sys, getopt
  
  #converts pdf, returns its text content as a string
  def convert(fname, pages=None):
      if not pages:
          pagenums = set()
      else:
          pagenums = set(pages)
  
      output = StringIO()
      manager = PDFResourceManager()
      converter = TextConverter(manager, output, laparams=LAParams())
      interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(manager, converter)
  
      infile = file(fname, 'rb')
      for page in PDFPage.get_pages(infile, pagenums):
          interpreter.process_page(page)
      infile.close()
      converter.close()
      text = output.getvalue()
      output.close
      return text 
  
  #converts all pdfs in directory pdfDir, saves all resulting txt files to txtdir
  def convertMultiple(pdfDir, txtDir):
      if pdfDir == "": pdfDir = os.getcwd() + "\\" #if no pdfDir passed in 
      for pdf in os.listdir(pdfDir): #iterate through pdfs in pdf directory
          fileExtension = pdf.split(".")[-1]
          if fileExtension == "pdf":
              pdfFilename = pdfDir + pdf 
              text = convert(pdfFilename) #get string of text content of pdf
              textFilename = txtDir + pdf + ".txt"
              textFile = open(textFilename, "w") #make text file
              textFile.write(text) #write text to text file
  
  pdfDir = "../../data/raw/"
  txtDir = "../../data/interim/"
  convertMultiple(pdfDir, txtDir)
  </code></pre>