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Merge PDFs using Python
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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
# Jacob Salmela | |
# Make PyPDF2 is installed: sudo easy_install PyPDF2 | |
# https://jacobsalmela.com/2016/08/12/merge-pdfs-natively-with-a-right-click-in-os-x/ | |
import sys | |
import os | |
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileMerger, PdfFileReader | |
merger = PdfFileMerger() | |
# Get the folder of the first file and that's where the merged PDF will go | |
dirname = os.path.dirname(sys.argv[1]) | |
for f in sys.argv[1:]: | |
filename = os.path.basename(f) | |
print("Appending " + filename + "...") | |
# Append each page to the merger | |
merger.append(PdfFileReader(file(f, 'rb'))) | |
# Close the file to prevent duplicate pages from being appended | |
file(f).close() | |
# Write all the appends to a new file | |
merger.write(os.path.join(dirname, "merged.pdf")) |
If you remove the get selected finder items from the workflow, those duplicates don't happen anymore. I updated my blog post to reflect that.
Thank you @jacobsalmela. I finally figured it out and then created a GUI version from your code. Thank you so much
NP. Glad it's still useful. I've been going through some of my old posts to fixup stuff like this.
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The code runs but i cant seem to find the location of my merged pdf. Can someone here help me please?