I need to write script that will convert images into pdfs and merge tchem into one.
I have tried to use img2pdf and PYPDF2 but I'm getting errors. Could someone take a look and tell me what I'm doing wrong.
import img2pdf
import os
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileMerger, PdfFileWriter
merger = PdfFileMerger()
path = input()
for root,dir,files in os.walk(path):
for eachfile in files:
if "pdf" not in eachfile:
os.chdir(root)
PDFfile = img2pdf.convert((eachfile,), dpi=None, x=None, y=None)
merger.append(fileobj=PDFfile)
merger.write(open("out.pdf", "wb"))
ERROR
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/ms/Desktop/Desktop/test.py", line 13, in <module>
merger.append(fileobj=PDFfile)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\PyPDF2\merger.py", line 203, in append
self.merge(len(self.pages), fileobj, bookmark, pages, import_bookmarks)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\PyPDF2\merger.py", line 133, in merge
pdfr = PdfFileReader(fileobj, strict=self.strict)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\PyPDF2\pdf.py", line 1065, in __init__
self.read(stream)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\PyPDF2\pdf.py", line 1660, in read
stream.seek(-1, 2)
AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'seek'
img2pdf.convert
returns bytes of the corresponding pdf file (as a string?), and not a file handler. If you read help(merger.append)
you will see that you need to pass either a file handler or a path to the PDF file. Here is a possible solution. It's probably also possible not to generate all the intermediate PDF files.
import img2pdf
import os
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileMerger, PdfFileWriter
merger = PdfFileMerger()
path = "/tmp/images"
for root,dir,files in os.walk(path):
for eachfile in files:
if "pdf" not in eachfile:
os.chdir(root)
pdfbytes = img2pdf.convert((eachfile,), dpi=None, x=None, y=None)
pdfname = eachfile.split('.')[0]+".pdf"
f = open(pdfname, 'wb+')
f.write(pdfbytes)
merger.append(fileobj=f)
f.close()
f = open("out.pdf", "wb")
merger.write(f)
f.close()
By the way, it would also be much simpler to use regular tools like convert, pdfjam, pdftk.