document-clipper

A set of utility classes and functions to process documents with Python

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://document-clipper.readthedocs.io.

Installation

The document_clipper package uses libraries that relies on several command-line tools included in the poppler-utils package such as: - pdftohtml - pdfimages - pftocairo

Before attempting to use document_clipper, please install the poppler-utils package.

For instance, in Ubuntu, you may do so by running the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install poppler-utils

Then, you may install document_clipper as usual via Python package managers, such as PIP:

$ pip install document_clipper

Features

• Fetch the number of pages associated to a PDF file.
• Extract the coordinates and dimensions of a given text located in a PDF file.
• Combine multiple PDFs into a single PDF.
• Combine multiple PDF and image files into a single PDF.
• Generate a new PDF file containing a subset of a provided source PDF file's pages. Rotations can be applied to each page individually.
• Optionally fix the document(s) involved in the slicing/merging processes beforehand.