Hi, py-poppler complains about undefined symbols when importing. The functions referenced by this symbols have been removed in poppler 0.18. There is a bug report from 2011 upstream, but py-poppler didn't have a new release since September 2009.
You can find the upstream bug report here (including patch): https://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler-python/+bug/776234 python output: ... $ python Python 2.7.4 (default, Apr 15 2013, 15:14:39) [GCC 4.2.1 20070719 ] on openbsd5 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import poppler python:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/poppler.so: undefined symbol 'poppler_page_render_selection_to_pixbuf' python:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/poppler.so: undefined symbol 'poppler_page_render_to_pixbuf_for_printing' python:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/poppler.so: undefined symbol 'poppler_page_render_to_pixbuf' python:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/poppler.so: undefined symbol 'poppler_page_get_thumbnail_pixbuf' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: Cannot load specified object ... natano P.S.: I have contacted $MAINTAINER, but he is "just a user who once submitted an update" and recommended to report the issue here.