This is my first post in this community and I am excited.

Environment

I am using a Notebook in Microsoft Fabric. The language is PySpark.

Objective

I want to convert a column in RTF to plaintext.

pip install striprtf

# Import the modules needed
from striprtf.striprtf import rtf_to_text
from pyspark.sql.functions import col, udf
from pyspark.sql.types import StringType

# Wrap function in UDF
my_udf = udf(lambda x:rtf_to_text(x), StringType())

# Create new column with plaintext
df.withColumn("plaintext", my_udf(col("formattedtext"))) 
  .show(truncate=False)

Challenge

I have installed the module striprtf, imported the needed functions and defined a UDF. Still I get an error message for the last command saying “No module named ‘striprtf'”. If I test the function “rtf_to_text” on a variable it works.