MAT (Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit) installs but fails to launch: Is it broken?

[purpletree]

I'm looking for software that can remove metadata from all kinds of files. It looks like MAT (Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit) is what I'm looking for.
When I used Software Manager to install it there's a couple of python dependencies that I also installed. The install process appeared error free. When I chose to Launch from the Software Manager it didn't work. Nothing happened.
I've since tried Removing and reinstalling from the Terminal. Again, no errors. But when I run

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mat-gui

this is what happens:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/mat-gui", line 18, in <module>
from libmat import mat
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libmat/mat.py", line 22, in <module>
import strippers # this is loaded here because we need LOGGING_LEVEL
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libmat/strippers.py", line 9, in <module>
import office
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libmat/office.py", line 15, in <module>
gi.require_version('Poppler', '0.18')
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 102, in require_version
raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
ValueError: Namespace Poppler not available

So is this a broken package or am I missing something on my end that I should know how to do?

I'm using
Linux Mint 18.3 KDE Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.8.9
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.36.0
Qt Version: 5.6.1
Kernel Version: 4.10.0-38-generic
OS Type: 64-bit

[WharfRat]

purpletree,

I just tried to install and run mat-gui and got the exact same results as you did.

So I would say that package is either obsolete or broken.