PDF_split.ipynb

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    "'''\n",
    "Author: Sohrab\n",
    "git: https://github.com/sohrabganjian\n",
    "requirements: PyPDF2\n",
    "\n",
    "The following is to split a particular\n",
    "page from PDF\n",
    "'''\n",
    "\n",
    "from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter\n",
    "\n",
    "pdf_file = open('document.pdf','rb')\n",
    "pdf_reader = PdfFileReader(pdf_file)\n",
    "pdf_writer = PdfFileWriter()\n",
    "\n",
    "# n is the page number you wish to be seperated\n",
    "# it is being subtracted by 1 since in Python 0 corresponds to the first page\n",
    "page = n - 1\n",
    "\n",
    "pdf_writer.addPage(pdf_reader.getPage(page))\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "split_file = open('output_name.pdf','wb')\n",
    "pdf_writer.write(split_file)\n",
    "split_file.close()\n",
    "pdf_file.close()"
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