PyPDF4 is a pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging together, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files. It can also add custom data, viewing options, and passwords to PDF files. It can retrieve text and metadata from PDFs as well as merge entire files together.
What happened to PyPDF2? Nothing; it's still available at https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2. For various reasons @claird will eventually explain, I've simply decided to mark a new "business model" with a slightly-renamed project name. While PyPDF4 will continue to be available at no charge, I have strong plans for better ongoing support to start in August 2018.
Homepage (available soon): http://claird.github.io/PyPDF4/.
Please see the samplecode/
folder.
Documentation soon will be available, although probably not at https://pythonhosted.org/PyPDF4/.
Please see http://claird.github.io/PyPDF4/FAQ.html (available in early August).
PyPDF4 includes a modest (but growing!) test suite built on the unittest
framework. All tests are located in the tests/
folder and are distributed
among dedicated modules. Tox makes running all tests over all versions of Python
quick work:
python -m pip install tox
python -m tox
Individual tests are accessible as conventional Pytest sources;
pytest -v tests/test_pdf.py
is an example which assumes the pytest
executable is activated.
For an exhaustive overview of what rules you are expected to maintain, please visit Contributing in the project Wiki. A quick outline of these is:
file_name
rather than fileName
,
and write_file()
rather than writeFile()
).79
characters or less.# TO-DO
or TO-DO
markings within
docstrings for indicating a
feature that is yet to be implemented or discussed. Some IDEs feature TO-DOs
detection consoles.