can not install in win10 with python 3.9:pip install pdfparanoia

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

[BaqirHassan]

just open the readme.MD in your favorite text editor and del the second paragraph. It is in some language other than English which is not understood by python.

And please let me know if the project runs for you.
Email: baqirhassan008@gmail.com

thanks for your time.

[kanzure]

Windows doesn't have unicode?

[BaqirHassan]

Windows doesn't have unicode?

Windows doesn't have unicode?

Windows do have unicodes. The problem with the installation is that readme.md file contains some illegal character which are not understandable for python interpreter when its tries to read readme.md file.

Same error in wsl 2 ubuntu 20.4

[BrianZbr]

Native Ubuntu install here but sudo pip install pdfparanoia also fails. Here's the full output from running that command in a fresh venv environment.

Collecting pdfparanoia
  Using cached pdfparanoia-0.0.16.tar.gz (11 kB)
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-4cjhk3fc/pdfparanoia/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-4cjhk3fc/pdfparanoia/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-install-4cjhk3fc/pdfparanoia/pip-egg-info
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-4cjhk3fc/pdfparanoia/
    Complete output (14 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-4cjhk3fc/pdfparanoia/setup.py", line 6, in <module>
        import pdfparanoia
      File "/tmp/pip-install-4cjhk3fc/pdfparanoia/pdfparanoia/__init__.py", line 27, in <module>
        from .core import scrub
      File "/tmp/pip-install-4cjhk3fc/pdfparanoia/pdfparanoia/core.py", line 20, in <module>
        from pdfparanoia.plugins import *
      File "/tmp/pip-install-4cjhk3fc/pdfparanoia/pdfparanoia/plugins/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
        from .jstor import *
      File "/tmp/pip-install-4cjhk3fc/pdfparanoia/pdfparanoia/plugins/jstor.py", line 98
        except PDFObjectNotFound, e:
                                ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.