Learn how to convert one or more of your photos into a PDF using the Python programming language and the Pillow package in Mike Driscoll’s latest video tutorial! Learn more about working with PDFs in Python in Mike’s book: ReportLab – PDF Processing with Python Want to learn more about image processing with Python and […]
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a very popular way to share documents across multiple platforms. The goal of the PDF is to create a document that will look the same on multiple platforms and that will print the same (or very similar) on various printers. The format was originally developed by Adobe but has
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In this video, you will get an introduction to ReportLab’s Canvas object. You use ReportLab to create PDFs using Python and this tutorial will show you one way to accomplish that Want to learn more about working with PDFs in Python? Then check out my book: ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python Purchase now on Leanpub
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The PyPDF2 package is a pure-Python PDF library that you can use for splitting, merging, cropping and transforming pages in your PDFs. According to the PyPDF2 website, you can also use PyPDF2 to add data, viewing options and passwords to the PDFs too. Finally you can use PyPDF2 to extract text and metadata from your
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Patrick Maupin created a package he called pdfrw and released it back in 2012. The pdfrw package is a pure-Python library that you can use to read and write PDF files. At the time of writing, pdfrw was at version 0.4. With that version, it supports subsetting, merging, rotating and modifying data in PDFs. The
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ReportLab is the primary toolkit that I use for generating PDFs from scratch. However, I have found that there is another one called fpdf2. The fpdf2 package is actually a port of the “Free”-PDF package that was written in PHP. Note: PyFPDF is now dead. This article was originally written with that package in mind.
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The PyPDF2 package allows you to do a lot of useful operations on existing PDFs. In this article, we will learn how to split a single PDF into multiple smaller ones. We will also learn how to take a series of PDFs and join them back together into a single PDF. Getting Started PyPDF2 doesn’t
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There are lots of PDF related packages for Python. One of my favorite is PyPDF2. You can use it to extract metadata, rotate pages, split or merge PDFs and more. It’s kind of a Swiss-army knife for existing PDFs. In this article we will learn how to extract basic information about a PDF using PyPDF2
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I do a lot of PDF report creation with Python using Reportlab. Occasionally I’ll throw PyPDF in as well. So I’m always on the lookout for other mature Python PDF tools. PDFDocument isn’t exactly mature, but it’s kind of interesting. The PDFDocument project is actually a wrapper for Reportlab. You can get it on github.
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At my job, we sometimes need to write a PDF to memory instead of disk because we need to merge an overlay on to it. By writing to memory, we can speed up the process since we won’t have the extra step of writing the file to disk and than reading it back into memory
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While researching PDF libraries for Python, I stumbled across another little project called metaPDF. According to its website, metaPDF is a lightweight Python library optimized for metadata extraction and insertion, and it is a fast wrapper over the excellent pyPdf library. It works by quickly searching the last 2048 bytes of the PDF before parsing
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Today I learned that the pyPDF project is NOT dead, as I had originally thought. In fact, it’s been forked into PyPDF2 (note the slightly different spelling). There’s also a possibility that someone else has taken over the original pyPDF project and is actively working on it. You can follow all that over on reddit
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Today we’ll be looking at a simple PDF generation library called pyfpdf, a port of FPDF which is a php library. This is not a replacement for Reportlab, but it does give you more than enough to create simple PDFs and may meet your needs. Let’s take a look and see what it can do!
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I’m always on the lookout for Python PDF libraries and I happened to stumble across pdfrw the other day. It looks like a replacement to pyPDF in that it can read and write PDFs, join PDFs and can use Reportlab for concatenation and watermarking, among other things. The project also appears slightly dead in that
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Recently I needed the ability to use Reportlab’s flowables, but place them in fixed locations. Some of you are probably wondering why I would want to do that. The nice thing about flowables, like the Paragraph, is that they’re easily styled. If I could bold something or center something AND put it in a fixed
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