import fitz # this is PyMuPDF 1.9.0
doc = fitz.open("some.pdf")
# An easy start: create new PDFs of the first and last 10 pages ...
l = list(range(10)) # first 10 pages
doc.select(l) # delete all others
doc.save("some-first-10.pdf", garbage=3)# save and clean new PDF
doc.close()
doc = fitz.open("some.pdf") # recycle PDF
l = list(range(doc.pageCount-10, doc.pageCount)) # last 10 pages
doc.select(l) # delete all others
doc.save("some-last-10.pdf", garbage=3) # save and clean new PDF
doc.close()
# page numbers may occur multiple times and in any order ...
doc = fitz.open("some.pdf") # recycle PDF
doc.select([1,1,1,3,3,3,5,5,5,0,0,0]) # create crazily tripled pages
doc.save("some-crazy-triples.pdf", garbage=3) # save that & clean new PDF
doc.close()
# new PDF containing the original 2 times
doc = fitz.open("some.pdf") # recycle PDF
l = list(range(doc.pageCount)) # list of all pages
l += l # two times that [0,...,n,0,...,n]
doc.select(l) # PDF will now contain itself twice ...
doc.save("some-times-2.pdf") # will hardly be bigger than original!
doc.close()
# delete pages without text (or whatever ...)
doc = fitz.open("some.pdf") # recycle PDF
l = list(range(doc.pageCount)) # list of all pages
for i in l:
if not doc.getPageText(i) # if no text on page number i ...
l.remove(i) # delete that page from list
doc.select(l) # select remaining pages from the PDF
doc.save("some-non-empty.pdf", garbage=3) # save PDF, every page has some text now ...
doc.close()
