Install Pandoc inside Azure Function for Pypandoc

[arpalani]

I am using the package pypandoc for converting DOC/DOCX files into HTML. This has a prerequisite of Pandoc being already installed. When both packages are installed using the requirements.txt file, it works locally. When I deploy it as an Azure Function, however, it always gives a "module not found" error. (pypandoc cannot find pandoc in the same path because it gets installed elsewhere.)

This seems like a known issue. Pandoc does not get installed in the same path as Pyandoc and there are multiple solutions suggested. But they only locally.

Options tried:

1. Use pandoc_download

   from pypandoc.pandoc_download import download_pandoc

2. Use wdc. This does not fix the problem.

3. Use wheel files that include Pandoc.

Right now I am using mammoth for conversion which is slightly lower in accuracy, but gets deployed on Az. How can I get Pypandoc working as an Azure Function? How can I install Pandoc in a place where Pypandoc can find it? Or, how can I tell Pypandoc where to find Pandoc?

[JessicaTegner]

Hi there

If you know the installation path of pandoc, you can hard code it in with the following

os.environ.setdefault('PYPANDOC_PANDOC', "C:/full/path/to/pandoc/folder/")

[JessicaTegner]

Hi. Since I haven't heard anything, I'll mark this issue as closed.
If you still need help, or have found a bug, feel free to reopen or make a new issue :)