Questions tagged [pdf]
Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for electronic document exchange maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Questions can be about creating, reading, editing PDFs using different languages.
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Re-write of PDF invoices from user input, decoupling of Invoice from FPDF class
Following on from this post and taking on board some of the suggestions, what follows is a re-write of the original python code. It's also just a rewrite of some of the functionality, this code only ...
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PDF invoices from user input
Firstly the goal of this code is a little more complex than in this post and the other invoice questions are C#
Is there anything that just pops out as immeadiately unpythonic/wrong ?
I have a few ...
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Walk a folder of files and extract creation date, countries mentioned and a summary based on their text for each
I made a script that scans a folder of 723 documents (pdf, pptx, docx) to extract the 'Name', 'Type', 'NbPages', 'Creation Date', 'Period Date', 'Countries', 'Summary', 'Indicateurs', 'Path'. I think ...
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Unstructured to Structured TOC
The following code tries to convert an unstructured TOC with bounding box layout data given by the output of pdftotext -bbox-layout -f 11 -l 13 new_book.pdf toc.html...
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Brute force search for pdf password in python
I forgot the password to my pdf. I remembered a few characters, so I made a simple password-cracker program in Python. Is the document lost now given the number of combinations? Out of curiosity, how ...
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PDFcomp: A PDF comprimer easy script
I developed this script in dead time to be able to compress the PDFs that they send me to university and also to be able to send scans to the various institutions that require formats that do not ...
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Attempting an OOP approach for PDF Paranoia - Automate the Boring Stuff CH 15
This exercise is called PDF Paranoia and it comes from CH 15 of the book Automate the Boring Stuff With Python - second edition. There are two parts to the exercise, which I've separated into two ...
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Adding a PDF file using iText7
Can I improve this code and make it more beautiful? For example, I am using a switch statement and for each page but I only add edits to page 1 and page 2?
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Resume Builder using Jinja Templates and HTML
I have attempted to hack together a CV/Resume builder and I would like a review. The aim is to output a styled PDF containing dynamic fields. I have taken a simple HTML file, an arguably bloated CSS ...
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How to optimize the code of my pdf generation from DGV code using iText5 & c#?
I have 2 DGV's one containing bills info & another containing credit notes info. When at least one item from both the DGV's are selected then it should generate a pdf (result1) taking data from ...
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Shell script to download Project Euler problems and combine to PDF
This is a script I created that downloads Project Euler webpages and combines them to PDF. The script also downloads animated files.
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Using fluent builder pattern for generating pdf
I'm testing to use a fluent builder pattern for generating a pdf file using AbcPDF.
I've looked at several methods of accomplishing this and I'd be very glad to get some input on what I've written so ...
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Copy data from a pdf into word for the purpose of starting a report
In order to write some reports I have to manually copy the name of client, address, claim number, etc from a pdf that I receive. I want to automate this part of the report writing by using vba to copy ...
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Speeding up Python program that converts DOCX to PDF in Windows
This is meant to be a performance-centric question as this type of conversion is obviously very common. I'm wondering about the possibilities for making this process faster.
I have a program that ...
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Secure file upload for PDF only
I am trying to create a secure file upload using PHP 7+ where I only allow PDF files. I found a lot of posts on this topic on different websites but couldn't find a complete solution that ensures that ...
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PDF merging program
I made a program that merges all the PDFs in a certain map. The program is made so it merges only one sided PDFs. I would like your opinion on the code and how can it be improved.
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Creating a thumbnail of a PDF using Cairo, Poppler and Rust
I want to create thumbnails from PDF files – specifically, a thumbnail of the first page. Currently I use pdftocairo on the command line:
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PDF page & word count, recursive searching of directory tree, output to excel
I wrote this program as part of a work-related problem but with a focus on improving my Python skills. The program was needed to do a word count PDF files. The problem was there were a large number of ...
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Class to generate a pdf invoice
I am learning to work with OOP design patterns and so I challenged myself with the idea of creating a way to generate a pdf invoice based on some information entered. So, this is what I have done so ...
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Python3 - Cropping PDF files according to coordinates
I have a python script, that is performing OCR on PDF pages.
I am trying to do so I can provide coordinates to the script - so it will only select the text within the provided coordinates ...
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Python3 - Determing if a PDF is scanned or "searchable"
I am in a situation where I need to determine if a PDF file is either:
Scanned
Searchable (contain text)
To do this, I am simply running the command pdffonts on ...
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Python script to extract text from PDF with images
I have the following Python script. The purpose of the script is to extract text from PDFs. I use textract for that because soon I realized there is no easy way to check if a page contains an image or ...
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Spliting PDF and get thumbnail while adding it to a ListView
I'm doing a application to work with PDF and TIFF files.
To divide them, the user opens the file or folder (if it is a folder, it gets all the files inside) and the app splits the file, getting a tiny ...
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Download and analyze PDFs of Congressional records
This is built with Python 2.7.15.
The goal of this script is to count the number of words spoken by each Senator on the floor of Congress between given dates.
It pulls from the Congressional Record, ...
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Writing PDF files in C#
I have been making C# software to write PDF files.
It's intended to be simple to use, compact, efficient and also reasonably simple to understand, maintain and extend as required.
The basic ...
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Improved RFC 1951 Deflate compression
I have substantially revised my earlier implementation, it now seems to be competitive with the standard C# ZLib implementation, increasing compression while being faster for moderate length inputs, ...
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A Python script to plot data and save to PDF
I have a very simple Python script. All it does is open two data files from a given directory, read the data, make a series of plots and save as PDF. It works, but it is very slow. It takes almost 20 ...
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Open encrypted PDF file by trying passwords from a word list
As an exercise, I wrote a program to decrypt a PDF file. The only thing that is known about the encryption password is that it is a single English word (all capital or lowercase).
The program uses a ...
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Decrypting PDF-Files
In Encrypt PDF-Files I provided a Python program to encrypt PDF-Files in a folder.
This program here does the oposite. Giving a password and path all PDFs which are encrypted are decrypted in the ...
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Encrypt PDF-Files
I wrote the following program for encrypting PDF Files for checking out the PyPDF2 module.
It takes a path and a password via the command line or user input. Then all PDF files in the provided folder ...
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CMYK shadings implementation for PGF
PGF is a graphics framework for \$\TeX\$ and friends. It supports shadings (gradients), but only in RGB.
There is often a need to output shadings in CMYK and I am having a go at implementing this.
I'...
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Text extraction of document files
I have this script that pulls text out of .docx, .doc and .pdf files and uploads that text to an Azure SQL Server. This is so users can search on the contents of those documents without using Windows ...
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Two versions of PDF-Selector
I have basically ended up with 2 versions of a PDF-Selector.
Both versions do the same thing. I'm not sure which solution is better. Maybe someone could give me a code review.
I use: PDFSharp-Nuget-...
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VB.NET - Error Handling in Generic Class for PDF Merge
As a part of a project I'm working on, a new requirement has arisen for me to be able to generate multiple PDF files and then merge them together before they are delivered to our client(s). For this, ...
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Retrieve TOC from PDF
I am reading 'Python Trick' in PDF type.
To have a big picture of the book, I aim to get a structure dict of TOC from the book.
So I copied its TOC from PDF to typora(a markdown editor) and solve the ...
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Extract images from a PDF or ZIP file
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inputBlob - A PDF or ZIP file containing all the pages of many students' test papers.
extension - The file type ("pdf" or ...
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Bash - script to encrypt pdf files using pdfencrypt
I wrote a small script to get around the issue when using pdfencrypt on the command line the password is always echoed as well as being saved to the 'history'.
<...
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Exporting Matlab Figures as PDF with a Minimal Amount of Whitespace for use in LaTeX
About this code
This Matlab function takes in the handle of a figure and exports a PDF containing a vector image of the plot.
The caller of this function can opt to even remove the axes if he or ...
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Small program to download wikipedia articles to pdf
I made a small app to download wikipedia articles (and optionally those that it links to) as PDFs to take on the go. I'd eventually like to do a text-to-speech option and save the article as an mp3, ...
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Batch convert images to PDF
I wrote a simple program that converts graphic files in a folder to a single PDF using Magic.NET. It works fine. I'm interested in general comments about the code ...
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Makefile for building classwork from markdown files and LaTeX
The following makefile builds my classwork for my various college classes and builds pdfs to hold the notes I took during class. I would like feedback on my directory structure and any optimizations ...
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Changing PDF annotation with JavaScript code to jump to page into regular to Go To Page action
I have just written my first program in C#. Please explain:
Have I used any bad practices?
How could the code be improved?
I would appreciate if provide the ...
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Classifying image by file extension within a PDF creator
To create a pdfDocument I am using following code which works as expected but do not want to use multiple if else.
Any patterns or any design strategies? It may ...
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Implementing a PDF generator that converts classes into PDFs
I'm building a tool that takes in web requests and deserializes JSON requests into a C# class. Each page calls a different controller URL that is looking for a specific request. Once the request is ...
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Get bibtex entries from metadata of PDF files
When I have to write a report or an article, I usually have my bibliography as PDFs in a specific folder, so I wrote this script to automate the generation of bibtex entries.
It works so far, but I'd ...
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Using iTextSharp and AddDocument/FreeReader to create a PDF document in streaming fashion
I have a directory of PDF files I want to merge into a single PDF. The number of files in the directory could be 10s, 100s, or even 1000s, so I'm trying to make sure my process is streaming as much ...
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Download a PDF and submit it as a print job
I have following Java code, which is to print PDF, but in a busy location this code is taking about 20 to 30 second delay before submitting to the hardware.
get the PDF file via the network
download ...
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MySQL/CUPS PDF printer for STAR TSP100 ECO
This is my very first attempt at Python and whilst the script works perfectly, I'd like to see if I'm missing anything obvious or doing anything particularly stupid. I think this runs on Python 2.7, ...
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Split big PDF into smaller documents and insert text at specific position
I’m new to Java programming and uncertain if I used the right approach to solve my job.
This little program uses the iText library to split one big PDF into smaller documents. The trigger for this is ...
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