Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder

Date	2014-01-16 19:41 +0000
From	Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk>
Subject	Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder
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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

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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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