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Use pyPdf to crop a pdf file according to user inputs
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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
import sys | |
if __name__ == '__main__' and len(sys.argv) > 5 and sys.argv[1][-3:].upper() == 'PDF': | |
original = sys.argv[1] | |
target = original[:-4] + '.cropped.pdf' | |
left = int(sys.argv[2]) | |
top = int(sys.argv[3]) | |
right = int(sys.argv[4]) | |
bottom = int(sys.argv[5]) | |
from pyPdf import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader | |
pdf = PdfFileReader(file(original, 'rb')) | |
out = PdfFileWriter() | |
for page in pdf.pages: | |
page.mediaBox.upperRight = (page.mediaBox.getUpperRight_x() - right, page.mediaBox.getUpperRight_y() - top) | |
page.mediaBox.lowerLeft = (page.mediaBox.getLowerLeft_x() + left, page.mediaBox.getLowerLeft_y() + bottom) | |
out.addPage(page) | |
ous = file(target, 'wb') | |
out.write(ous) | |
ous.close() | |
else: | |
print 'EXAMPLE: pdfcrop.py original.pdf 20 30 20 40' |
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Hi, Mayank Dehariya here, I have a query like I want to crop a pdf using coordinates and save it django server.How could be it paoossible.