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I have been using camelot for our project, but since 2 days I got following errorMessage. When trying to run following code snippet:

import camelot
tables = camelot.read_pdf('C:\\Users\\user\\Downloads\\foo.pdf', pages='1')
I get this error:
DeprecationError: PdfFileReader is deprecated and was removed in PyPDF2 3.0.0. Use PdfReader instead.
I checked this file and it does use pdfFileReader: c:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\camelot\handlers.py
I thought that I can specify the version of PyPDF2, but it will be installed automatically(because the library is used by camelot) when I install camelot. Do you think there is any solution to specify the version of PyPDF2 manually?
                In the requirements of camelot is specified that it needs PyPDF2>=1.26.0. So as long as you install a version that satisfies that requirement, everything should be fine. An issue regarding this problem already exists on their GitHub.
– Clasherkasten
                Dec 28, 2022 at 11:49
This is issues #339.
While there will hopefully be soon a release including the fix, you can still do this:
pip install 'PyPDF2<3.0'
after you've installed camelot.
See https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot/issues/339#issuecomment-1367331630 for details and screenshots.
                I tried pip install PyPDF2<3.0 in Colab but still received the error DeprecationError: PdfFileReader is deprecated and was removed in PyPDF2 3.0.0. Use PdfReader instead
– Christine Tan
                Jan 12 at 18:08
                @ChristineTan I had this same issue. Double check your PyPDF2 version (pip3 show PyPDF2), and if less than 3.0, restart your kernel/venv and rerun your code.
– Celi Manu
                Feb 2 at 18:40
DeprecationError: PdfFileReader is deprecated and was removed in PyPDF2 3.0.0. Use PdfReader instead.
Just removing the file from pdfFileReader worked for me. This means writing this PdfReader instead of pdfFileReader this.
I just changed the imports as the error msg suggested:
# From
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileMerger
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader
from PyPDF2 import PdfMerger
from PyPDF2 import PdfReader
In my case (version PyPDF2 3.0.0) both classes exists.
And I thought that I need to change the code or something, but no, simply worked.
I solved the issue uninstalling camelot-py and re installing it includeing  the "extra cv requirement", like this:
pip install "camelot-py[base]"
I hope it can be useful!
source: https://readthedocs.org/projects/camelot-py/downloads/pdf/master/
        
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