TypeError: stat: path should be string, bytes, os.PathLike or integer, not NoneType

[JJery-web]

Hello. My code is:

from refextract import extract_references_from_file
import os

--- main ---

path="E:\finance Python\2022 business\1226 pdf\42_56\"
name="test.pdf"
file=name
print(file)
st = os.stat(file)
print(st)
references = extract_references_from_file(os.path.join(path, name))
print(references[0])

But unfortunately, I don't know why the path is an error. I also change the path to "test.pdf" but can not function. Please help!

[JJery-web]

I find this helps me.
jalan/pdftotext#16

All hope is not lost on the windows version. There is a command line utility with the same name and you can use the subprocess package to execute pdftotext

PDFtotext windows download instruction, credit @s2t2

Go to https://www.xpdfreader.com/download.html and click "Download the Xpdf tools"
Uncompress/extract the zip file, and move the folder to a location like the Desktop or the Programs directory.
Inside the unzipped folder, copy the file bin64/pdftotext.exe into your project repository