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PDF FILE ORIENTATION detection

I need a help to detect a orientation of a PDF file (Portrait or Landscape) by using Python. anyone has an idea?

I have been trying different libs but not successful yet.

Solution

  • Each page can be in a different orientation, but you can use PyPDF to detect the page size of the first page and determine the orientation accordingly:

    from PyPDF2  import PdfFileReader

pdf = PdfFileReader(file('example.pdf'))
page = pdf.getPage(0).mediaBox
if page.getUpperRight_x() - page.getUpperLeft_x() > page.getUpperRight_y() - page.getLowerRight_y():
    print('Landscape')
else:
    print('Portrait')