This post covers basic PDF manipulation for daily tasks using simple Python modules.
- Merging mulitple PDF
- Extract text from PDF
- Extract image from PDF
Merging PDF
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileMerger pdfs = ['a.pdf', b.pdf] merger = PdfFileMerger() for pdf in pdfs: merger.append(pdf) merger.write("output.pdf")
Extract text from PDF
import pdftotext # Load your PDF with open("Target.pdf", "rb") as f: pdf = pdftotext.PDF(f) # Save all text to a txt file. with open('output.txt', 'w') as f: f.write("\n\n".join(pdf))
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Extract Image (JPEG) from PDF
import os import tempfile from pdf2image import convert_from_path filename = 'target.pdf' with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as path: images_from_path = convert_from_path(filename, output_folder=path, last_page=1, first_page =0) base_filename = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(filename))[0] + '.jpg' save_dir = 'your_saved_dir' for page in images_from_path: page.save(os.path.join(save_dir, base_filename), 'JPEG')
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