calibre.ebooks.ConversionError

[ryanlee]

13:43:03 # ebook-convert /usr/local/src/sample.pdf /usr/local/src/sample.txt
1% Converting input to HTML...
InputFormatPlugin: PDF Input running
on /usr/local/src/sample.pdf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/ebook-convert", line 19, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/conversion/cli.py", line 254, in main
plumber.run()
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 778, in run
accelerators, tdir)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 211, in __call__
log, accelerators)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/pdf/input.py", line 50, in convert
pdftohtml(os.getcwd(), stream.name, options.no_images)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/pdf/pdftohtml.py", line 55, in pdftohtml
raise ConversionError(_('Could not find pdftohtml, check it is in your PATH'))
calibre.ebooks.ConversionError: Could not find pdftohtml, check it is in your PATH



I cheked pdftohtml.py file's location but it is in "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/pdf/" What's wrong?

[kovidgoyal]

You need to check for the file

pdftohtml

not pdftohtml.py

and it needs to be in your PATH

echo $PATH