How to Split PDF using Python

This quick tutorial guides on how to split PDF using Python. It contains information about the environment settings, a basic step-by-step process to right the application, and a runnable sample code showing how using Python split PDF pages and saves each page as a separate PDF file. You will also learn how to filter the pages and split only the desired pages or customize the output PDF file per the requirements.

Steps to Split PDF using Python

  1. Configure the IDE to use Aspose.PDF for Python via .NET to split a PDF
  2. Load the source PDF file into the Document object containing multiple pages for splitting
  3. Parse through all the pages of the loaded PDF file
  4. In each iteration create a new PDF file and add the current iteration page to it
  5. Save the resultant PDF file with a single page in it with a unique name

These steps summarize the steps to extract pages from PDF using Python. The default pages collection is used in the source PDF document that is parsed one by one and in each iteration, a new PDF file is created and the current page is added to it. Add the end of the iteration, the resultant PDF file is saved as a separate PDF file with a different name.

Code to Split PDF Pages using Python

Above code demonstrates the process to separate PDF pages using Python. First, the source PDF file with multiple pages is loaded into the Document class object, and then for loop is used to parse all the pages in the Document.pages collection. During the iteration, you may apply different checks like page numbers or search for some content on it before splitting it as a separate PDF file or customize the output PDF file by using the PdfSaveOptions class object for the newly created PDF file.

This short tutorial has guided us to split PDF file using Python If you want to learn the process to merge multiple PDF files into one PDF file, refer to the article on how to merge PDF using Python.

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