The PyPDF2 package is a pure-Python PDF library that you can use for splitting, merging, cropping and transforming pages in your PDFs. According to the PyPDF2 website, you can also use PyPDF2 to add data, viewing options and passwords to the PDFs too. Finally you can use PyPDF2 to extract text and metadata from your […]
Patrick Maupin created a package he called pdfrw and released it back in 2012. The pdfrw package is a pure-Python library that you can use to read and write PDF files. At the time of writing, pdfrw was at version 0.4. With that version, it supports subsetting, merging, rotating and modifying data in PDFs. The […]
ReportLab is the primary toolkit that I use for generating PDFs from scratch. However, I have found that there is another one called fpdf2. The fpdf2 package is actually a port of the "Free"-PDF package that was written in PHP. Note: PyFPDF is now dead. This article was originally written with that package in mind. […]
This week we welcome Maria Camila Remolina Gutierrez (@holamariacamila) as our PyDev of the Week! Maria recently gave a talk at PyCon USA in their new PyCon Charlas track last month. You can learn more about Maria on her website or you can check out her Github profile to see what she has been doing […]
Qt for Python (i.e. PySide2) was announced recently and got me interested in trying to use it to load up a UI file. If you don't know, PyQt and PySide / PySide2 can use the Qt Creator application to create user interfaces using a drag-and-drop interface. This is actually very similar to the way you […]
The ReportLab toolkit allows you to create interactive fillable forms. The PDF standard actually has a fairly rich set of interactive elements. ReportLab doesn't support all of these elements, but it does cover most of them. In this section, we will look at the following widgets: checkbox radio choice listbox textfield All of these widgets […]
