LastPdfPage

Sometimes PDFs are generated for a powerpoint presentation, but then they don't work so well as PDF documents.

For example, a single slide in the presentation might be designed to show each bullet point sequentially when the presenter clicks. However, once this presentation is converted to a document, it becomes much harder to use because each bullet point now has its own page.

LastPdfPage eliminates this problem by editing a PDF that has multiple pages with the same page number, and selecting only the last (or first) page from each page range that has this issue.

Installation

Simply run:

pip install git+git://github.com/TMiguelT/LastPdfPage.git

CLI

Usage: last-pdf-page [OPTIONS] PDF

Options:
  --select [first|last]  Whether to choose the first, or last page for each
                         number

  --help                 Show this message and exit.

For example, to edit a PDF and take only the last page of each page-range with the same number:

last-pdf-page --select last somePdf.pdf > fixed.pdf

Python API

from last_pdf_page import simplify_pdf

with open('fixed.pdf', 'wb') as fp:
    simplify_pdf('somePdf.pdf', select='last', outfile=fp)