python - Installing Poppler utils of version 0.82 in docker

Question

Below is the dockerfile that I am using

FROM python:3.6-slim
RUN apt update
RUN apt install poppler-utils -y
RUN apt install git -y
WORKDIR /src/
ADD . /src
CMD tail -f /dev/null

when I check the version of poppler using pdftocairo -v , I get 0.71 as the poppler version. I need to install specific version(0.82) of poppler with a python baseimage

Answer 1

At the time of writing this answer, the latest version of the Poppler is 20.08.0. If you want to use this version in your Docker image, you can do it as follows:

1. Create a Dockerfile with the following content

   FROM python:3.8-slim-buster
   RUN apt-get update && apt-get install wget build-essential cmake libfreetype6-dev pkg-config libfontconfig-dev libjpeg-dev libopenjp2-7-dev -y
   RUN wget https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-data-0.4.9.tar.gz 
       && tar -xf poppler-data-0.4.9.tar.gz 
       && cd poppler-data-0.4.9 
       && make install 
       && cd .. 
       && wget https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-20.08.0.tar.xz 
       && tar -xf poppler-20.08.0.tar.xz 
       && cd poppler-20.08.0 
       && mkdir build 
       && cd build 
       && cmake .. 
       && make 
       && make install 
       && ldconfig
   CMD tail -f /dev/null
   

2. Build and run your image

   docker build -t milanhlinak/poppler .
   docker run --name poppler milanhlinak/poppler
   

3. Verify that Poppler was installed

   PS C:UsersMilanpoppler-docker> docker exec -it poppler pdftotext -v
   pdftotext version 20.08.0
   Copyright 2005-2020 The Poppler Developers - http://poppler.freedesktop.org
   Copyright 1996-2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC
   

You can also check https://hub.docker.com/r/milanhlinak/poppler/