Is there a script to convert folder images to a single PDF file

Question

I have many folders and inside, I have many images. Now I want one PDF for each folder so that all the images contained in the folder go to the PDF. I have 1000s of folders, so I want something that can batchprocess or that can walk in the folder and start processing things.

Answer 1

I would solve this using ImageMagick, not Python. ImageMagick has a "convert" console tool. Use it like this:

convert *.jpg foo.pdf 

See here . (Depending on whether you use Windows, Mac or Linux, it will be easy for you to find out on Google)

Answer 2

I used this code to do the same. It uses Python (2.7 not Python 3) and the reportlab package, downloaded from here http://www.reportlab.com/software/installation/ , and iterates over all the subdirectories of what you set as “root” and creates one PDF of all jpeg in each folder.

 import os from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas from reportlab.lib.utils import ImageReader root = "C:\\Users\\Harry\\" try: n = 0 for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(root): PdfOutputFileName = os.path.basename(dirpath) + ".pdf" c = canvas.Canvas(PdfOutputFileName) if n > 0 : for filename in filenames: LowerCaseFileName = filename.lower() if LowerCaseFileName.endswith(".jpg"): print(filename) filepath = os.path.join(dirpath, filename) print(filepath) im = ImageReader(filepath) imagesize = im.getSize() c.setPageSize(imagesize) c.drawImage(filepath,0,0) c.showPage() c.save() n = n + 1 print "PDF of Image directory created" + PdfOutputFileName except: print "Failed creating PDF" 

Answer 3

I would suggest running loops through your docs using something like this:

 def __init__(self, location): if os.path.isdir(location): # search directory for infile in glob.glob(os.path.join(directory, '*.png')): print 'current file is: %s' % infile 

In a for loop, I would suggest using a library like pyPDF