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Reverse page order in PDF file with Python
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#!/usr/bin/python | |
""" | |
This script reverse the pages of a PDF document and save it to a new file. | |
Dependancy : | |
- "PDFRW" | |
Usage : | |
- `pip install pdfrw` | |
- `python reverse.py file.pdf` | |
""" | |
from pdfrw import PdfReader, PdfWriter | |
import sys | |
import os | |
def reverse(pdf_file): | |
writ = PdfWriter() | |
read = PdfReader(pdf_file) | |
for page in reversed(read.pages): | |
writ.addpage(page) | |
writ.write('reversed_%s' % pdf_file) | |
if __name__ == "__main__": | |
if(len(sys.argv) == 1): | |
print("Usage `python reverse.py mypdffile.pdf`") | |
exit(0) | |
pdf = sys.argv[1] | |
if os.path.isfile(pdf): | |
reverse(pdf) | |
print("Reversed file '%s'" % pdf) | |
else: | |
print("File not found") |
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output:
[ERROR] uncompress.py:72 Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check (20755, 0)
[ERROR] uncompress.py:72 Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check (20757, 0)
[ERROR] uncompress.py:72 Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check (20758, 0)
[ERROR] uncompress.py:72 Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check (20753, 0)
[ERROR] uncompress.py:72 Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check (20760, 0)
[ERROR] uncompress.py:72 Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check (20754, 0)
[ERROR] uncompress.py:72 Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check (20759, 0)
[ERROR] uncompress.py:72 Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check (20764, 0)
[ERROR] uncompress.py:72 Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check (20765, 0)
[ERROR] uncompress.py:72 Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check (20756, 0)
[ERROR] uncompress.py:72 Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check (20761, 0)
[ERROR] uncompress.py:72 Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check (20763, 0)
[ERROR] uncompress.py:72 Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check (20762, 0)
[WARNING] tokens.py:228 Did not find PDF object (2319, 0) (line=179958, col=1, token='endobj')
[ERROR] pdfreader.py:472 Invalid page tree: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable
note: used it on a scanned pdf.
any idea?