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Created April 11, 2022 02:12
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Split a PDF vertically, used for imposed scanned double sided PDF pages
# see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51973437/reverse-pdf-imposition
import copy
import sys
import math
import pyPdf
"""
Reverse imposing:
--A3-- --A4--
[12| 1] [1]
[ 2|11] [2]
[10| 3] => [3]
... ...
[ 6| 7] [6]
[7]
...
[12]
"""
def split_pages(src, dst):
src_f = file(src, 'r+b')
dst_f = file(dst, 'w+b')
input_PDF = pyPdf.PdfFileReader(src_f)
num_pages = input_PDF.getNumPages()
first_half, second_half = [], []
for i in range(num_pages):
p = input_PDF.getPage(i)
q = copy.copy(p)
q.mediaBox = copy.copy(p.mediaBox)
x1, x2 = p.mediaBox.lowerLeft
x3, x4 = p.mediaBox.upperRight
x1, x2 = math.floor(x1), math.floor(x2)
x3, x4 = math.floor(x3), math.floor(x4)
x5, x6 = math.floor(x3/2), math.floor(x4/2)
if x3 > x4:
# horizontal
p.mediaBox.upperRight = (x5, x4)
p.mediaBox.lowerLeft = (x1, x2)
q.mediaBox.upperRight = (x3, x4)
q.mediaBox.lowerLeft = (x5, x2)
else:
# vertical
p.mediaBox.upperRight = (x3, x4)
p.mediaBox.lowerLeft = (x1, x6)
q.mediaBox.upperRight = (x3, x6)
q.mediaBox.lowerLeft = (x1, x2)
if i in range(1,num_pages+1,2):
first_half += [p]
second_half += [q]
else:
first_half += [q]
second_half += [p]
output = pyPdf.PdfFileWriter()
for page in first_half + second_half[::-1]:
output.addPage(page)
output.write(dst_f)
src_f.close()
dst_f.close()
if len(sys.argv) < 3:
print("\nusage:\n$ python reverse_impose.py input.pdf output.pdf")
sys.exit()
input_file = sys.argv[1]
output_file = sys.argv[2]
split_pages(input_file,output_file)
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