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Convert PDF page to image with pyPDF2 and BytesIO

I have a function that gets a page from a PDF file via pyPdf2 and should convert the first page to a png (or jpg) with Pillow (PIL Fork) That results in an error: OSError: cannot identify image file <_io.BytesIO object at 0x0000023440F3A8E0> I found some threads with a similar issue, (PIL open() method …

Error in the coding of the characters in reading a PDF

I need to read this PDF. I am using the following code: However, the encoding is incorrect, it prints: But I expected How to solve it? I’m using Python 3 Answer The PyPDF2 extractTest method returns UniCode. So you many need to just explicitly encode it. For example, explicitly encoding the Unicode into…

Why does pyPdf2.PdfFileReader() require a file object as an input?

csv.reader() doesn’t require a file object, nor does open(). Does pyPdf2.PdfFileReader() require a file object because of the complexity of the PDF format, or is there some other reason? Answer It’s just a matter of how the library was written. csv.reader allows any iterable that returns strings (…

Inexpensive ways to add seek to a filetype object

PdfFileReader reads the content from a pdf file to create an object. I am querying the pdf from a cdn via urllib.urlopen(), this provides me a file like object, which has no seek. PdfFileReader, however uses seek. What is the simple way to create a PdfFileReader object from a pdf downloaded via url. Now, what…

Cropping pages of a .pdf file

I was wondering if anyone had any experience in working programmatically with .pdf files. I have a .pdf file and I need to crop every page down to a certain size. After a quick Google search I found the pyPdf library for python but my experiments with it failed. When I changed the cropBox and trimBox attribut…