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January 8, 2014 17:15
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Takes a pdf file and extracts a range of pages. Useful for batch removing cover pages or editing
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#!/usr/bin/python | |
import argparse | |
import os | |
from pyPdf import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader | |
def is_valid_file(parser, arg): | |
if not os.path.exists(arg): | |
parser.error("The file %s does not exist." % arg) | |
else: | |
return arg | |
def main(): | |
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Split PDFs") | |
parser.add_argument('pdf_file', help="input file that you are splitting", | |
metavar="SOURCE-PDF", type=lambda x: is_valid_file(parser, x)) | |
parser.add_argument('output_file', help="name of output file", metavar="OUTPUT-PDF") | |
parser.add_argument('start_page', help="start page", type=int, metavar="START-PAGE") | |
parser.add_argument('end_page', help="end page", type=int, metavar="END-PAGE") | |
args = parser.parse_args() | |
if args.start_page > args.end_page or args.start_page < 0: | |
parser.error("Bad page numbers.") | |
with open(args.pdf_file, "rb") as pdf_file: | |
inputpdf = PdfFileReader(pdf_file) | |
outputpdf = PdfFileWriter() | |
if inputpdf.numPages < args.end_page: | |
parser.error("End page out of range. Only %s pages in document." % inputpdf.numPages) | |
for page in xrange(args.start_page, args.end_page+1): | |
outputpdf.addPage(inputpdf.getPage(page)) | |
outputpdf.write(open(args.output_file, "wb")) | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
main() |
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