pdftotext can't find libpoppler-cpp.1.dylib after upgrading macOS and poppler

[devstknco]

My setup:
MacOS: 15.3 (24D60)
python: 3.12
poppler: 25.02.0
pdftotext: 3.0.0

What has changed:
Upgrade macOS from 14.x to 15.3
Upgrade poppler to version 25.02.0

After upgrade I get this error:

import pdftotext
ImportError: dlopen(<...>/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pdftotext.cpython-312-darwin.so, 0x0002): Library not loaded: /opt/homebrew/opt/poppler/lib/libpoppler-cpp.1.dylib
<...>
libpoppler-cpp.1.dylib' (no such file)

Checking the dir /opt/homebrew/opt/poppler/lib/ there is no file called libpoppler-cpp.1.dylib but a file called libpoppler-cpp.2.dylib

This workaround seems to work:
Created a symbolic link libpoppler-cpp.1.dylib --> libpoppler-cpp.2.dylib

[optimistiCli]

JFYI: similar issue with python-poppler.

[jalan]

I'm not sure I understand the issue here. If you have

1. python
2. the poppler library
3. this python package, which was compiled after you installed 1 and 2

And then you make changes to 1 or 2, you can't assume that things will work. If there were ABI changes from your poppler upgrade, it makes sense that the poppler CPP lib version number changed.

The solution shouldn't be to make symbolic links, but to rebuild this package against the new poppler version. If that doesn't work, then there's a bug here. If it does work, we're all good.

[devstknco]

Thanks for the explanation.
You are right 2 changed and I did a minor upgrade of python. But I also removed pdftotext from my project and installed it again. It is still looking for the wrong version of poppler. I removed the poetry cache but it still results with the same problem. Not sure what else I can try besides downgrading poppler as suggested in the linked issue above.

[devstknco]

It looks like that poetry causes the issue. With pip it seems to work.

[rushilsrivastava]

It seems that the bundled wheels are stale and no longer work. You should instead rebuild from source:

# first ensure poppler is up to date
brew update
brew reinstall poppler
brew link --overwrite poppler

# drop the stale wheel and rebuild from source
pip uninstall -y pdftotext
PIP_NO_BINARY="pdftotext" \
pip install --no-cache-dir --force-reinstall pdftotext