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Rotates provided pages of a file named input.pdf and saves it to output.pdf
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import PyPDF2 | |
import sys | |
rotatepages = [] | |
inps = sys.argv[1:] | |
if len(inps) < 1: | |
print("rotates pages of any pdf named inp.pdf, saves it to output.pdf") | |
print("usage: pdf_rotate.py <spaced delimited list of pages/page ranges>\nexample: pdf_rotate.py 9-12 15 17-19\nwill rotate pages 9 10 11 12 15 17 18 and 19") | |
exit(1) | |
for inp in inps: | |
if "-" in inp: | |
sinp = inp.split("-") | |
[rotatepages.append(n) for n in range(int(sinp[0])-1,int(sinp[1]))] | |
else: | |
rotatepages.append(int(inp)-1) | |
if input(f"rotating these pages of inp.pdf by 90 degrees clockwise:\n{rotatepages}\nis this okay? y/N").lower() != "y": | |
print("did nothing, exiting") | |
exit(0) | |
with open('input.pdf', 'rb') as file: | |
reader = PyPDF2.PdfReader(file) | |
for p in rotatepages: | |
page = reader.pages[p].rotate(90) | |
writer = PyPDF2.PdfWriter() | |
for page in reader.pages: | |
writer.add_page(page) | |
with open('output.pdf', 'wb') as new_file: | |
writer.write(new_file) |
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