Error while pdf to text conversion using textract

Question

text = textract.process('sample.pdf')

Error details as follows , giving full path aswell did not work

Executed in vscode windows 11

Exception has occurred: ShellError
The command `pdftotext sample.pdf -` failed with exit code 127
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FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

  File "pdf_extract.py", line 8, in <module>
    text = textract.process('sample.pdf')
textract.exceptions.ShellError: The command `pdftotext sample.pdf -` failed with exit code 127
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