How do I resolve "No module named 'frontend'" error message?

python python-3.x mupdf pymupdf
Waqar picture Waqar · Jun 5, 2019 · Viewed 20.5k times · Source

I have installed PymuPDF/fitz because am trying to extract images from PDF files. However, upon running the code below, I am seeing No module named 'frontend'.

    doc = fitz.open(pdf_path)
            for i in range(len(doc)):
                for img in doc.getPageImageList(i):
                    xref = img[0]
                    pix = fitz.Pixmap(doc, xref)
                    if pix.n < 5:  # this is GRAY or RGB
                        pix.writePNG("p%s-%s.png" % (i, xref))
                    else:  # CMYK: convert to RGB first
                        pix1 = fitz.Pixmap(fitz.csRGB, pix)
                        pix1.writePNG("p%s-%s.png" % (i, xref))
                        pix1 = None
                    pix = None

I have searched but there isn't single report of this kind of error. I have installed PyMuPDF, muPDF and fitz modules

Here is the error in full:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/home/waqar/PycharmProjects/predator/ExtractFileImage.py", line 1, in <module>
        import fitz
      File "/home/waqar/anaconda3/envs/retinanet/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fitz/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
        from frontend import *
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'frontend'

Answer

Ronin picture Ronin · Oct 11, 2019

I've solved it by:

pip install PyMuPDF

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