Popular recipes tagged "pymupdf"

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.

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 ...

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 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).

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.

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.

Create Tiles of Images with fitz / MuPDF (PyMuPDF) (Python)

2016-04-26T19:54:31-07:00

Python recipe 580629 by Jorj X. McKie (mupdf, png, pymupdf, tiles). Revision 4.

Take an image file (like PNG) and create a new one consisting of arbitrary tiles of the original (or overlay an existing image with selective tiles of another).

Saving a numpy array to png image using fitz / MuPDF (PyMuPDF) (Python)

2016-03-19T12:57:38-07:00

Python recipe 580630 by Harald Lieder (fitz, image, mupdf, numpy, png, pymupdf). Revision 2.

If a pixel array is defined in numpy, it can be saved as a PNG image VERY fast if you use PyMuPDF.

New Version: GUI PDF Table of Contents Editor using fitz / MuPDF, wxPython (Python)

2016-06-22T11:34:20-07:00

Python recipe 580623 by Harald Lieder (fitz, mupdf, pdf, pymupdf, python, toc). Revision 2.

Create or modify the bookmarks list of a PDF (ToC - table of contents). Supports arbitrary hierarchy levels. Display PDF while editing to control bookmark targets. PDF meta data are maintainable. Save PDF under the same or a different name.