Python

PDF Splitter

The PDF Splitter Tool is handy for instances where I want to quickly split up the pages of a PDF into individual files, e.g.

The code is written in Python using the PyPDF2 library for the splitting function. I used easygui for the file path operations so it can be used on any OS. Unfortunately it can't split encrypted files at this point.

It uses the PyPDF2 library to check the quantity of pages in the file, then the loop iterates over each page and saves it as an individual pdf file with the page number from the original document in the filename.

from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter from pathlib import Path import easygui def selectpdf(): fileopenlocation = easygui.fileopenbox(msg='Please select a pdf', title='Specify File') #print(fileopenlocation) if(str(fileopenlocation)=='None'): #print('Nothing selected') return if(str.lower(fileopenlocation[-3:])!='pdf'): easygui.msgbox("File must be a PDF", title="Error") fileopenlocation = '' selectpdf() #print(str(filelocation[-3:])) input_pdf = PdfFileReader(str(fileopenlocation)) filesavelocation = filesaveloc() #print(str(filesavelocation)) pageqty = input_pdf.getNumPages() pdf_writer = [None] * pageqty for n in range(0, pageqty): pdf_writer[n] = PdfFileWriter() #print(pageqty) #Creating the new PDFs for n in range(0, pageqty): #print(n) page = input_pdf.getPage(n) pdf_writer[n].insertPage(page,0) with Path(filesavelocation + '_pg' + (str(n+1)) + '.pdf').open(mode="wb") as output_file: pdf_writer[n].write(output_file) def filesaveloc(): filesavelocation = easygui.filesavebox(msg='Select output location', title='Output PDFs') return filesavelocation if __name__ == "__main__": selectpdf()