PDF Pypdf Core PDF Operations

pypdf - Core PDF Operations (+2)

pypdf - Core PDF Operations

Merging PDFs:

from pypdf import PdfMerger

merger = PdfMerger()
merger.append("file1.pdf")
merger.append("file2.pdf")
merger.write("merged.pdf")
merger.close()

Splitting PDFs:

from pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter

reader = PdfReader("document.pdf")
for i, page in enumerate(reader.pages):
    writer = PdfWriter()
    writer.add_page(page)
    writer.write(f"page_{i+1}.pdf")

Extracting Metadata:

reader = PdfReader("document.pdf")
info = reader.metadata
print(f"Author: {info.author}")
print(f"Title: {info.title}")
print(f"Pages: {len(reader.pages)}")

pdfplumber - Advanced Text Extraction

Text with Layout Preservation:

import pdfplumber

with pdfplumber.open("document.pdf") as pdf:
    for page in pdf.pages:
        text = page.extract_text()
        print(text)

Table Extraction:

import pdfplumber

with pdfplumber.open("document.pdf") as pdf:
    page = pdf.pages[0]
    tables = page.extract_tables()
    for table in tables:
        for row in table:
            print(row)

reportlab - Creating PDFs

Create PDF from Scratch:

from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas

c = canvas.Canvas("output.pdf", pagesize=letter)
c.drawString(100, 750, "Hello, World!")
c.showPage()
c.save()

Multi-page Documents:

from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter
from reportlab.platypus import SimpleDocTemplate, Paragraph
from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet

doc = SimpleDocTemplate("output.pdf", pagesize=letter)
styles = getSampleStyleSheet()
story = []

story.append(Paragraph("Title", styles['Heading1']))
story.append(Paragraph("Body text here.", styles['Normal']))

doc.build(story)