extract PDF pages

[David Isaac]

While pdftk is awesome

http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/

I am looking for a Python solution.
Just for PDF page extraction.
Any hope?

Thanks,
Alan Isaac

[Andreas Lobinger]

Re: extract PDF pages

Aloha,

David Isaac wrote:[color=blue]
> I am looking for a Python solution.
> Just for PDF page extraction.
> Any hope?[/color]

With python, there's always hope.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfplayground

In the CVS (sorry no distribution at the time) you'll find
an example page-extract.

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pdfplayground/ppg/Exp/page-extract.py?rev=1.1&view=markup

pdfplayground is limited at the moment to PDF <= 1.4.
If you want to do more with .pdfs you'll probably need at least
a basic understanding of the PDF specification. pdfplayground
is focused at low-level .pdf (by implementation resources...).

Thomas Lotze is also preparing a pdf reader/writer project:

http://svn.thomas-lotze.de/PDFSpec/

So is David Boddie:

http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/Projects/Python/pdftools

Wishing a happy day
LOBI

[Larry Bates]

Re: extract PDF pages

I've used ReportLab's PageCatcher. It isn't free, but
I've gladly paid for the functionality it gives me.

Larry Bates

http://www.reportlab.com/pagecatcher_index.html

David Isaac wrote:[color=blue]
> While pdftk is awesome
> http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
> I am looking for a Python solution.
> Just for PDF page extraction.
> Any hope?
>
> Thanks,
> Alan Isaac
>
>[/color]