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June 24, 2019 13:20
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Split a pdf file between provided pages.
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from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter | |
def split(path, split_name, start_page, end_page): | |
# Create a FileReader instance | |
pdf = PdfFileReader(path) | |
# Create a FileWriter instance | |
pdf_writer = PdfFileWriter() | |
""" | |
Add every page between start to end, | |
inclusively, to the FileWriter instance | |
""" | |
for page in range(start_page, end_page): | |
pdf_writer.addPage(pdf.getPage(page)) | |
# Write the contents of the | |
# FileWriter instance to a file | |
output = f'{split_name}.pdf' | |
with open(output, 'wb') as output_pdf: | |
pdf_writer.write(output_pdf) | |
if __name__ == "__main__": | |
path = 'test.pdf' # Same folder | |
split(path, 'split_file', 343, 385) |
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