hi,

Im doing a project as part of academic programme.Im doing this in linux platform.
Here i wanted to create a application which retreive some information from some pdf files .

For eg i have pdfs of subject2,subject1,in both the whole pdf is divided in to 4 modules and i want to get the data of module 1 from pdf.

For this purpose i have used PDFTOHTML application and converted pdf files to html and jpeg images.

Now i want to create a pyhton script which will combine the pages(which have been coverted in to jpeg images) under module 1 and merge it into a single file and then i will convert it back to pdf .

How can i do this?.If anyone can provide any such python script which have done any functions similar to this then it will be very helpful.

.... thanks in advance

Please define "sequence" and "merge" more precisely. Do you want to number them (in their filename)? Put them together in an animation?

To get you started, maybe you can have a look at ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org). Can work from commandline
and has a Python interface you can use. I use it regularly for animations, mosaics,...

Why does it have to be a Python script?

dili;

You have edited your original post after the reply from timmeke. I cannot tell if you have changed something in response to timmeke's questions.

Please post a reply to clarify what you are doing.

PS:
Please use capitals at the beginning of each new sentence (and an extra space or two.)

ImageMagick's convert tool should be able to put the JPEG images into one PDF file.
But then again, as it's your tutor who asked this... it's homework and the forum should not help you any further...(read the forum rules)

what sequence and merge means?

I have number of jpeg images(which is produced using pdftohtml tool by converting a pdf file). Now i need to take some images based on some condition(which i have vaguely specified in original post) and group it in to a single file and convert that file back to pdf

i believe the idea is somewhat clear

thanks for replies

Hi timmeke:

Thanks for your reply

Its not a homework given to me by my tutor. I just used word tutor in place of Advisor who advised me to convert pdf to jpeg images

Im a newbie in python and ,so first all dont know whether this could done using python.If i could get a similar script then i will be able to study and make my own script for this purpose.

I desparetly need help as the project is not moving forward

If you could help me then i will be very thankful

dili

Again, read the posts - ImageMagick's convert command can do that easily. And answer the question - why does it *have* to be in Python?
Python could call the convert (as external command) or you could try to use ImageMagick's Python interface. Just google for some examples.

should do the trick. There are plenty of options to toy with too.

Edit: Perhaps it's easier to delete the undesired JPEGs or to single out the desired ones (copying to a separate folder).
That's just a way to break up the problem into smaller pieces.

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