PDFminer incompatible with django

[ananth-srv]

When I have django and Pdf miner installed, the application fails. Could you please fix this issue?

from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pdfminer/pdfinterp.py", line 5, in
from .cmapdb import CMapDB
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pdfminer/cmapdb.py", line 24, in
from .psparser import PSStackParser
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pdfminer/psparser.py", line 24, in
STRICT = getattr(settings, 'PDF_MINER_IS_STRICT', True)
File "/home/vijay/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/conf/init.py", line 53, in getattr
self._setup(name)
File "/home/vijay/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/conf/init.py", line 39, in _setup
% (desc, ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE))
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting PDF_MINER_IS_STRICT, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.

[tanmais]

I had the same problem. You need to create a new virtual environment for your project and install pdfplumber into it. worked for me ...

[pietermarsman]

I'm not seeing why pdfminer should depend on Django.

I suggest we deprecate the usage of Django and drop the support in a later release.