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| From | Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder |
| Date | 2014-01-16 20:01 +0000 |
| References | <CAJ3b0o828ZOAYM8Gt0BsLcZ97beGAnQWT9C+_7yFE4HSjiiU3Q@mail.gmail.com> <mailman.5602.1389901256.18130.python-list@python.org> <0c648d2d-d8b3-4848-8b37-1e5e1ae40327@googlegroups.com> |
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On 16/01/2014 19:50, vasishtha.spier@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, January 16, 2014 11:41:04 AM UTC-8, Tim Golden wrote: >> On 16/01/2014 19:11, Harry Spier wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Dear list members, >> >>> >> >>> I have a directory that contains about a hundred subdirectories named >> >>> J0001,J0002,J0003 . . . etc. >> >>> Each of these subdirectories contains about a hundred JPEGs named >> >>> P001.jpg, P002.jpg, P003.jpg etc. >> >>> >> >>> I need to write a python script that will cycle thru each directory and >> >>> convert ALL JPEGs in each directory into a single PDF file and save >> >>> these PDF files (one per directory) to an output file. >> >>> >> >>> Any pointers on how to do this with a Python script would be >> >>> appreciated. Reading on the internet it appears that using ImageMagick >> >>> wouldn't work because of using too much memory. Can this be done using >> >>> the Python Image Library or some other library? Any sample code would >> >>> also be appreciated. >> >> >> >> The usual go-to library for PDF generation is ReportLab. I haven't used >> >> it for a long while but I'm quite certain it would have no problem >> >> including images. >> >> >> >> Do I take it that it's the PDF-generation side of things you're asking >> >> about? Or do you need help iterating over hundreds of directories and files? >> >> >> >> TJG > > Its mostly the PDF generating side I need but I haven't yet used the Python directory and file traversing functions so an example of this would also be useful especially showing how I could capture the directory name and use that as the name of the pdf file I'm creating from the directory contents. > > Thanks again, > Harry > I'm sorry that I can't help with your problem, but would you please read and action this https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython to prevent us seeing the double line spacing above, thanks. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence
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Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-01-16 19:41 +0000
Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder vasishtha.spier@gmail.com - 2014-01-16 11:50 -0800
Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-16 20:01 +0000
Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-01-16 20:07 +0000
Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder vasishtha.spier@gmail.com - 2014-01-16 21:42 -0800
Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-01-17 08:53 +0000
Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-01-17 09:01 +0000
Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-01-16 20:12 +0000
Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder vasishtha.spier@gmail.com - 2014-01-16 12:20 -0800
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