title: pdfminer - import error
body: <p>I’m new to Python and programming in general.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to install pdfMiner.  I have Windows 7 with Python 2.7 installed. 
  I followed the instructions when installing (downloaded the PDFMiner source, unpacked it, and ran <code>setup.py</code> to install and it was installed in <code>C:\pdfminer</code>) – no errors.</p>
  
  <p>It created:
  <code>build</code>, <code>build\lib,build\lib\pdfminer</code>, then copied files to <code>build\lib\pdfminer</code>. It created <code>build\scripts-2.7</code> and copied <code>tools\pdf2txt.py</code>, <code>dymppdf.py</code> to <code>scripts</code>, then wrote <code>install-egg-info</code>
  and had no errors with install.</p>
  
  <p>When I try running the test document from the command line:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\pdfminer\pdfminer-20140328&gt; pdf2txt.py samples/simple1.pdf
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>File “C:\Python27\Scripts\pdf2txt.py”, line3, in &lt;module&gt; from pdfminer.pdfdocument import PDFDocument
  ImportError:  No module named pdfminer.pdfdocument
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I saw this post:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35904738/pdfminer-importerror-no-module-named-pdfminer-pdfdocument">pdfminer - ImportError: No module named pdfminer.pdfdocument</a></p>
  
  <p>and tried following it (#1..put <code>sys.path.append…</code> into <code>pdf2txt.py</code>) and get the same error.</p>
  
  <p>The system variables do include the path  (<code>pdfminer\pdfminer-20140328</code>).</p>
  
  <p>I’ve looked for other solutions but haven’t had much luck – the file is there but I can’t seem to get the program to look in the right area for it…I think.</p>
  
  <p>Do I have the wrong path or is it installed in the wrong directory?</p>