python merge pdfs

1# pdf_merging.py
2
3from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter
4
5def merge_pdfs(paths, output):
6    pdf_writer = PdfFileWriter()
7
8    for path in paths:
9        pdf_reader = PdfFileReader(path)
10        for page in range(pdf_reader.getNumPages()):
11            # Add each page to the writer object
12            pdf_writer.addPage(pdf_reader.getPage(page))
13
14    # Write out the merged PDF
15    with open(output, 'wb') as out:
16        pdf_writer.write(out)
17
18if __name__ == '__main__':
19    paths = ['document1.pdf', 'document2.pdf']
20    merge_pdfs(paths, output='merged.pdf')
21

1from PyPDF2 import PdfFileMerger, PdfFileReader
2merger = PdfFileMerger()
3
4merger.append(PdfFileReader(open(filename1, 'rb')))
5merger.append(PdfFileReader(open(filename2, 'rb')))
6
7merger.write("merged.pdf")

1from PyPDF2 import PdfFileMerger, PdfFileReader
2 
3# Call the PdfFileMerger
4mergedObject = PdfFileMerger()
5 
6# I had 116 files in the folder that had to be merged into a single document
7# Loop through all of them and append their pages
8for fileNumber in range(1, 117):
9    mergedObject.append(PdfFileReader('6_yuddhakanda_' + str(fileNumber)+ '.pdf', 'rb'))
10 
11# Write all the files into a file which is named as shown below
12mergedObject.write("mergedfilesoutput.pdf")
13