Popular recipes tagged "pdf" but not "xtopdf" and "selectpdf"

Insert a Text Box in a PDF page (fitz / PyMuPDF) (Python)

2017-06-29T22:54:25-07:00

Python recipe 580809 by Jorj X. McKie (fitz, mupdf, pdf, textbox).

This method inserts text into a predefined rectangular area of a (new or existing) PDF page. Words are distributed across the available space, put on new lines when required etc. Line breaks and tab characters are respected / resolved. Text can be aligned in the box (left, center, right) and fonts can be freely chosen. The method returns a float indicating how vertical space is left over after filling the area.

Inserting Images on PDF Pages (Python)

2017-05-17T21:10:26-07:00

Python recipe 580803 by Jorj X. McKie (fitz, mupdf, pdf, pymupdf).

Version 1.11.0 of PyMuPDF allows putting an image on an existing PDF page. The following example puts the same image on every page of a given PDF - like a thumbnail.

Create Calendars on PDF with a few lines (Python)

2017-06-13T10:57:34-07:00

Python recipe 580805 by Jorj X. McKie (calendar, fitz, mupdf, pdf, pymupdf). Revision 2.

PyMuPDF (fitz) provides easy to use ways to create PDF documents out of simple texts.

An example is the text output of Python's calendar module. Here we take a starting year as script parameter and output a 3-page (A4 landscape) document with calendars for this and the following two years - in less than 20 lines of code.

How to handle PDF embedded files with PyMuPDF (Python)

2017-07-11T18:57:54-07:00

Python recipe 580796 by Jorj X. McKie (embedded_files, fitz, mupdf, pdf, pymupdf). Revision 3.

Version 1.11.0 (based on MuPDF v1.11) allows exporting, importing and interrogating files embedded in a PDF.

PDF "/EmbeddedFiles" are similar to ZIP archives (or the Microsoft OLE technique), allowing arbitrary data to be incorporated in a PDF and benefit from its unique features.

Inserting pages into a PDF with PyMuPDF (Python)

2017-05-17T21:15:26-07:00

Python recipe 580802 by Jorj X. McKie (fitz, mupdf, pdf, text_conversion). Revision 2.

Version 1.11.0 of PyMuPDF allows creating new PDF pages, as well as inserting images into existing pages.

Here is a script that converts any textfile into a PDF.

PDF Text Extraction using fitz / MuPDF (PyMuPDF) (Python)

2016-03-17T12:00:06-07:00

Python recipe 580626 by Jorj X. McKie (cbz, epub, mupdf, openxps, pdf, pymupdf, text_extraction, xps).

Extract all the text of a PDF (or other supported container types) at very high speed. In general, text pieces of a PDF page are not arranged in natural reading order, but in the order they were entered during PDF creation. This script re-arranges text blocks according to their pixel coordinates to achieve a more readable output, i.e. top-down, left-right.

How to Create a PDF with a Caustic Drawing (Python)

2017-06-18T17:43:47-07:00

Python recipe 580806 by Jorj X. McKie (fitz, mupdf, pdf, pymupdf).

Just a little demo on how to create simple drawings with PyMuPDF.

This script simulates what you see looking into your coffee mug, early in the morning after a long night of programming ...

How to Maintain PDF Links with fitz / PyMuPDF (Python)

2017-03-22T13:12:25-07:00

Python recipe 580765 by Jorj X. McKie (fitz, link, mupdf, pdf).

This REPL script example displays, updates, inserts and deletes links on a PDF page.

Rotate a PDF page in 3 lines (Python)

2016-11-06T11:33:59-08:00

Python recipe 580713 by Jorj X. McKie (fitz, mupdf, pdf, pymupdf). Revision 2.

PyMuPDF v1.9.3 now supports several new features for manipulating PDFs.

Here is an example to rotate a page with just a few lines of Python code.

How to delete pages in a PDF using fitz / MuPDF / PyMuPDF (Python)

2016-05-01T09:26:44-07:00

Python recipe 580657 by Jorj X. McKie (mupdf, pdf, pdf_generation).

A new method select() in PyMuPDF 1.9.0 allows selecting pages of a PDF document to create a new one. Any Python list of integers (0 <= n < page count) can be taken.

The resulting PDF contains all links, annotations and bookmarks (provided they still point to valid targets).

Extract images of a PDF - optionally by page using PyMuPDF / fitz (Python)

2016-09-28T12:03:59-07:00

Python recipe 580703 by Jorj X. McKie (fitz, pdf, png).

Two small scripts to extract images contained in a PDF document as PNG files. (1) Script 1 extracts all images (2) Script 2 extracts only images that are referenced by a page

CSV export / import of PDF bookmarks (table of contents) (Python)

2017-01-07T12:21:39-08:00

Python recipe 580743 by Jorj X. McKie (bookmarks, csv, fitz, mupdf, pdf).

Two little utilities to export or import a PDF's table of contents from / to a standard CSV file. Typical usecase would be:

export TOC to CSV file
edit CSV file
import TOC from CSV file

How to parse a table in a PDF document (Python)

2016-04-10T22:43:57-07:00

Python recipe 580635 by Jorj X. McKie (cbz, epub, fitz, mupdf, openxps, parsing, pdf, pymupdf, table, xps). Revision 4.

A Python function that converts a table contained in a page of a PDF (or OpenXPS, EPUB, CBZ, XPS) document to a matrix-like Python object (list of lists of strings).

Access PDF annotations (Python)

2016-12-13T11:06:14-08:00

Python recipe 580732 by Jorj X. McKie (annotation, fitz, mupdf, pdf).

Version 1.10.0 of PyMuPDF supports PDF annotations. Among other things they can be extracted as images and also updated to some extent.

Reverse the sequence of annotations on a PDF page (Python)

2017-01-22T14:02:16-08:00

Python recipe 580733 by Jorj X. McKie (annotation, fitz, mupdf, pdf). Revision 2.

Just another demonstration of PyMuPDF's features to deal with annotations:

Take a page with several annotations and let them change places in reverse order: first and last annot exchange their rectangles, second and second to last, etc.

The annotation images are enlarged or compressed as required to fit into their new areas.

PDF wrapper for FileOptimizer (Python)

2016-10-29T20:22:27-07:00

Python recipe 580711 by Harald Lieder (fileoptimizer, fitz, mupdf, optimization, pdf, pymupdf).

Among dozens of other filetypes, FileOptimizer also compresses PDFs - often significantly. The issue is that the used plugin smpdf is free for non-commercial use only and it annoyingly also overwrites metadata information to state this.

The following tool remedies these metadata changes (but not the license situation!).

Simple PDF Bookmark / Table of Contents Maintenance (Python)

2016-06-20T18:14:38-07:00

Python recipe 580684 by Jorj X. McKie (bookmarks, fitz, incremental, metadata, pdf, pymupdf).

PyMuPDF now supports a simple interface for maintaining table of contents / bookmarks and metadata for PDF documents. By manipulating ordinary, elementary lists and dictionaries you can add, delete, modify a PDF's metadata and table of contents.

Decrypt a PDF using fitz / MuPDF (PyMuPDF) (Python)

2016-03-17T12:22:10-07:00

Python recipe 580627 by Harald Lieder (decompression, decryption, pdf, repair).

It's more a code snippet. Shows how to dynamically check whether a PDF is password protected. If it is, decrypt it and save it back to disk un-encrypted.

Publish a Windows Process List to PDF with xtopdf (Batch)

2015-12-27T20:45:32-08:00

Batch recipe 579142 by Vasudev Ram (pdf, pdfwriter, pdf_generation, processes, process_management, python, windows).

This recipe shows how you can generate a Windows process list or task list (basically, a list of running processes, with some information about each of them), to a PDF file, using the Windows TASKLIST command along with the xtopdf toolkit. The list is sorted in ascending order of memory usage of the processes, before writing it to PDF.

It differs somewhat from other xtopdf recipes, in that no additional code needs to be written, over and above what is already in the xtopdf package. We just have to use the needed commands there, in a series of commands or a pipeline.

However, one can still write additional code, by modifying the program used (StdinToPDF.py), if needed, to customize the PDF output.

wxPython PDF / XPS Viewer using PyMuPDF (binding for fitz / MuPDF) (Python)

2016-09-28T12:21:03-07:00

Python recipe 580621 by Jorj X. McKie (cbz, epub, mupdf, pdf, pymupdf, wxpython, xps). Revision 2.

A simple program to display a PDF (or XPS, EPUB, CBZ) document with forward / backward buttons and a field for directly jumping to a specific page. It uses the Python binding PyMuPDF for fitz, the high-performance / high-quality graphics library of MuPDF. It obviously can also be used to display XPS documents on non-Windows platforms.

This new version also supports any links contained in a page.