Could not find executable pdftotext

[benmordecai]

Describe the bug
On Windows 11 powershell installed with chocolaty, rga mysearchterm in a folder of pdfs yields one error per document of the form:

D:\datasheets\Communication Interfaces\FA-ISOCON Serial RS232-RS485 Interface.pdf adapter: poppler
Error: during preprocessing

Caused by:
    0: run_adapter(D:\datasheets\Communication Interfaces\FA-ISOCON Serial RS232-RS485 Interface.pdf)
    1: adapting D:\datasheets\Communication Interfaces\FA-ISOCON Serial RS232-RS485 Interface.pdf via poppler failed
    2: Could not find executable "pdftotext".

I have explicitly installed poppler with choco install poppler and the installation was successful. Nevertheless the error remains.

It seems like rga cannot find poppler in its default installation location. Perhaps a problem with path variables but I do not know much about how Windows manages paths as I am primarily a Linux user.

Operating System and Version
Windows 11

Output of rga --version
ripgrep-all 0.10.6

Output of $Env:Path

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Rockwell Software\RSCommon\;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin;C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\mpv.install\tools;C:\Program Files\dotnet\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Rockwell\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Rockwell Software\RSCommon;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Rockwell;C:\Program Files (x86)\Rockwell Software\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Rockwell\FTLD\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Rockwell\FTLD\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Rockwell\FactoryTalk Linx\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\160\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Rockwell Software\RSView Enterprise\;C:\Users\ben mordecai\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps

[dcbarry]

Exact same error, win 10, also installed by chocolately

[phiresky]

I don't know how chocolately installs things, but the pdftotext binary must be in path for rga to work.

[lafrenierejm]

@benmordecai, @dcbarry To confirm whether pdftotext is on your default PATH, please share the output of running Get-Command pdftotext in PowerShell.

If pdftotext is on your PATH, then the issue would be that the PATH is somehow being munged when rga is called. If it's not on your PATH, then the that would be the first issue to fix and might warrant reaching out to the maintainer of chocolatey's ripgrep-all package.