| name | pdf-pypdf-core-pdf-operations |
| description | Sub-skill of pdf: pypdf - Core PDF Operations (+2). |
| version | 1.2.2 |
| category | data |
| type | reference |
| scripts_exempt | true |
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)