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A simple method to spit an open scanned pdf book to single page output.
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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
#-*- coding: UTF-8 -*- | |
# Copyright (c) 2010 by None | |
# | |
# GNU General Public Licence (GPL) | |
# | |
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under | |
# the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software | |
# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later | |
# version. | |
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT | |
# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS | |
# FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more | |
# details. | |
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with | |
# this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple | |
# Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA | |
# | |
__author__ = '''Costas Tyfoxylos <costas.tyf@gmail.com>''' | |
__docformat__ = 'plaintext' | |
__date__ = '02/09/2010' | |
import sys | |
import os | |
from pyPdf import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader | |
def split_pages(filename): | |
input_document = open(filename, 'rb') | |
pdf_name = input_document.name | |
pdf = PdfFileReader(input_document) | |
out_pdf = PdfFileWriter() | |
for index in range(pdf.numPages): | |
page = pdf.getPage(index) | |
width = page.mediaBox[2] | |
height = page.mediaBox[3] | |
if width > height: | |
firstPdf = PdfFileReader(input_document) | |
secondPdf = PdfFileReader(input_document) | |
firstPage = firstPdf.getPage(index) | |
secondPage = secondPdf.getPage(index) | |
firstPage.cropBox.lowerLeft = (0, 0) | |
firstPage.cropBox.upperRight = (width / 2 + 10, height) | |
secondPage.cropBox.lowerLeft = (width / 2 - 10, 0) | |
secondPage.cropBox.upperRight = (width, height) | |
out_pdf.addPage(firstPage) | |
out_pdf.addPage(secondPage) | |
else: | |
out_pdf.addPage(page) | |
out_put_file = open("FullPage {filename}".format(filename=pdf_name), 'wb') | |
out_pdf.write(out_put_file) | |
out_put_file.close() |
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