tools to manage PDF files easily
pyPDFTools use a library to manage single PDF files, you can download this library here: pyPDF2
Then you can install pyPDF2 module with command: python setup.py install
This tool merge multiple PDF files in a single one with different options
usage: pdfMerger [-h] [-s | -a] [-o OUTPUT] [-r i [i ...]] [-q | -v]
firstFile otherFile [otherFile ...]
positional arguments:
firstFile First file to be merged
otherFile Other pdf Files that have to be merged with first
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-s, --sequential Sequential method, files will be merged in the same
order as user specified them
-a, --alternate Alternate method, files will be merged taking one page
from each file at a time
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
FileName for the output file
-r i [i ...], --reverse i [i ...]
Select index of otherFile that have to be reversed
before merging
-q, --quiet Set a Quiet Output for the Script
-v, --verbose Set a Verbose Output for the Script
If you have to scan a document composed by a lot of sheet you can scan first the odd pages, after that you can turn paper block and scan the even pages in reverse order, with this tool you can simply merge odd and even pages in final document in this way:
pdfMerger -q -r 0 -o final.pdf -a odd.pdf even.pdfthis example is situation that lead me to develop this tools. Yes i know, there are a lot of similar tools for all os, but i wanted something that was really customizable and light
from pdfMerger import PdfMerger