Python PDFBOX Example

hello-pdfbox.py

# Hello PDFBOX - A suprisingly simple example for calling PDFBOX from Python
#
# Author: Tres Finocchiaro
# License: WTFPL

# STEPS:
#    macOS:
#       brew install python openjdk@11
#       pip3 install jpype1
#
#    ubuntu:
#       sudo apt-get install openjdk-11-jdk pip
#       pip install jpype1
#
#    windows:
#       (help wanted: fork this gist and tag me <3)

import jpype
import jpype.imports

# pdfbox-app-2.x.x.jar is located at ./jars/
jpype.startJVM(classpath = ['jars/*'])

from org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel import PDDocument, PDPage;

with PDDocument() as document:
    # Create a new blank page and add it to the document
    blankPage = PDPage();
    document.addPage(blankPage );

    # Save the newly created document
    document.save("BlankPage.pdf");

    # Make sure that the document is properly closed.
    document.close();