How to extract PDF pages and save as a separate PDF file using Python

In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to extract specific pages (or split specific pages) from a PDF file and save those pages as a separate PDF using Python.

Before we dive into tutorial, you will need to install PyPDF2 library (pip install PyPDF2).

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Source Code:

from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter

pdf_file_path = 'Unknown.pdf'
file_base_name = pdf_file_path.replace('.pdf', '')

pdf = PdfFileReader(pdf_file_path)

pages = [0, 2, 4] # page 1, 3, 5
pdfWriter = PdfFileWriter()

for page_num in pages:
    pdfWriter.addPage(pdf.getPage(page_num))

with open('{0}_subset.pdf'.format(file_base_name), 'wb') as f:
    pdfWriter.write(f)
    f.close()

3 Comments

Mauro on July 22, 2020 at 11:03 am

Hello, I watched your video on youtube. Your videos are amazing. I was curious, is there a way to get this script to to use file names in a column from a .csv file as variable inputs ?

jiejenn on July 21, 2020 at 9:16 pm

My preferred method is use either CSV module or Pandas library to read the data from a CSV file and store the dataset into an array, them I can iterate each row of values accordingly.
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