100% Free Python Library for PDF Processing and Generation - Versitle & Powerful

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Free Spire.PDF for Python is a powerful PDF API designed for creating, reading, editing, converting, and saving PDF files in Python applications, all without requiring any external dependencies. With this Python library, developers can leverage a wide range of features to generate PDF files from scratch or fully process existing ones through Python code.

Free Spire.PDF for Python supports numerous advanced features, including security settings, text and image extraction, PDF merging and splitting, drawing text, images, shapes, and barcodes, as well as creating and filling form fields. Additionally, it allows for adding or removing PDF layers, overlaying PDFs, inserting watermarks, managing bookmarks, adding tables, and compressing PDF files. The library also facilitates seamless conversions between PDF and various other formats, including XPS, SVG, Excel, Word, HTML, and PDF/A, ensuring high-quality results.

Friendly Reminder: Free version is limited to 10 pages of PDF. This limitation is enforced during writing PDF. When converting PDF to Image, XPS, Word, HTML, you can only get the first 3 pages of file. Upgrade to Commercial Edition of Spire.PDF for Python. We don't provide technical or any other support to the users of the free versions.

Core Features & Functionality

Installation

pip install Spire.Pdf

Extensive PDF Version Support

• PDF 1.2 to PDF 1.7
• PDF/A - 1b
• PDF/x1a
• PDF/A1
• PDF/A2
• PDF/A3
• PDF/UA

Flexible PDF Document Conversions

• Convert PDF to images (PNG, JPG, BMP, etc.) for wide distribution
• Convert PDF to Word documents for easy content editing
• Convert PDF to Excel workbooks for convenient data processing
• Convert PDF to SVG and many other formats without effort

Main Tutorials

• How to Extract Image From a PDF in Python
• How to Extract Text From a PDF in Python
• How to Rotate PDF Pages in Python
• How to Merge PDFs in Python
• How to Split PDFs in Python
• How to Add Text Watermarks in Python
• How to Add Image Watermarks in Python
• How to Encrypt a PDF in Python

Robust PDF Security Features

• Protect PDF documents with passwords to secure sharing
• Set PDF security permissions to control access and usage
• Sign PDF documents with digital signature for certified trust

Efficient PDF Creation and Manipulation

• Create new PDF documents with customizable attributes and layouts
• Merge multiple PDFs into one PDF or split a PDF into separate PDFs

Seamless PDF Content Extraction

• Extract text from PDFs with simple Python code
• Extract images from PDFs for further editing and utilization

Code Examples

Create PDF Documents

from spire.pdf.common import *
from spire.pdf import *

# Create a pdf document
doc= PdfDocument()
# Create one page
page = doc.Pages.Add()
s = "Hello, World"
x = 10.0
y = 10.0
font = PdfFont(PdfFontFamily.Helvetica ,30.0)
color = PdfRGBColor(Color.get_Black())
textBrush = PdfSolidBrush(color)
# Draw the text
page.Canvas.DrawString(s, font, textBrush, x, y)
# Save the document
doc.SaveToFile("HelloWorld.pdf")
doc.Close()

Convert PDFs to Word Documents

from spire.pdf.common import *
from spire.pdf import *

# Load a pdf document
inputfile = inputFile
doc = PdfDocument()
doc.LoadFromFile("ToDocx.docx")
# Convert to doc file.
doc.SaveToFile("./Demos/Data/ToDocx.pdf", FileFormat.DOCX)
doc.Close()

Encrypt PDF Documents

from spire.pdf.common import *
from spire.pdf import *

# Create a PdfDocument object
doc = PdfDocument()

# Load a sample PDF file
doc.LoadFromFile("input.pdf")

# Encrypt the PDF file with an open password and a permission password
doc.Security.Encrypt("openPsd", "permissionPsd", PdfPermissionsFlags.FillFields, PdfEncryptionKeySize.Key128Bit)

# Save the result file
doc.SaveToFile("output/Encrypted.pdf", FileFormat.PDF)

Extract Text from PDF Documents

from spire.pdf.common import *
from spire.pdf import *

def WriteAllText(fname:str,text:List[str]):
        fp = open(fname,"w")
        for s in text:
            fp.write(s)
        fp.close()

doc = PdfDocument()
# Read a pdf file
doc.LoadFromFile("./Demos/Data/PDFTemplate-Az.pdf")
# Get the first page
page = doc.Pages[0]
# Extract text from page keeping white space
text = page.ExtractText(True)
# Write a line of text to the file
WriteAllText("ExtractTextFromParticularPage_out.txt", text)
doc.Close()

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