Create PDF from a list of images

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Is there any practical way to create a PDF from a list of images files  using Python   In Perl I know that module  With it I can create a PDF in just 3 lines   use PDF  FromImage      my  pdf   PDF  FromImage- gt new   pdf- gt load images  allPagesDir    pdf- gt write file  bookName     pdf      I need to do something very similar to this  but in Python  I know the pyPdf module  but I would like something simple    Edit  If you came through Google  here s the code   from fpdf import FPDF from PIL import Image def makePdf pdfFileName  listPages  dir            if  dir           dir             cover   Image open dir   str listPages 0       jpg       width  height   cover size      pdf   FPDF unit    pt   format    width  height        for page in listPages          pdf add page           pdf image dir   str page      jpg   0  0       pdf output dir   pdfFileName     pdf    F

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It s not a truly new answer  but - when using img2pdf the page size didn t come out right  So here s what I did to use the image size  I hope it finds someone well   assuming 1  all images are the same size  2  placing one image per page  3  image fills the whole page  from PIL import Image import img2pdf  with open   output pdf    wb    as f      img   Image open   1 jpg        my layout fun   img2pdf get layout fun          pagesize     img2pdf px to pt  img width  96    img2pdf px to pt  img height  96        this is where image size is used  96 is dpi value         fit   img2pdf FitMode into   I didn t have to specify this  but just in case              f write  img2pdf convert     1 jpg    2 jpg    3 jpg     layout fun   my layout fun

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The best answer already exists     I am just improving the answer a little bit   Here s the code    from fpdf import FPDF pdf   FPDF     imagelist is the list with all image filenames you can create using os module by iterating all the files in a folder or by specifying their name for image in imagelist      pdf add page       pdf image image x 0 y 0 w 210 h 297    for A4 size because some people said that every other page is blank pdf output  yourfile pdf    F     You ll need to install FPDF for this purpose   pip install FPDF

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I know this is an old question  In my case I use Reportlab  Sheet dimensions are expressed in points  not pixels  with a point equal to 1 72 inch  An A4 sheet is made up of 595 2 points width and 841 8 points height  The origin of the position coordinates  0  0  is in the lower left corner  When creating an instance of canvas Canvas  you can specify the size of the sheets using the pagesize parameter  passing a tuple whose first element represents the width in points and the second  the height  The c showPage    method tells ReportLab that it has already finished working on the current sheet and moves on to the next one  Although a second sheet has not yet been worked on  and will not appear in the document as long as nothing has been drawn  it is good practice to remember to do so before invoking c save     To insert images into a PDF document  ReportLab uses the Pillow library  The drawImage    method takes as its argument the path of an image  supports multiple formats such as PNG  JPEG and GIF  and the position  x  y  in the that you want to insert  The image can be reduced or enlarged indicating its dimensions via the width and height arguments  The following code provides pdf file name  list with png files  coordinates to insert images as well as size to fit in portrait letter pages  def pntopd file  figs  x  y  wi  he       from reportlab pdfgen import canvas     from reportlab lib pagesizes import A4  letter  landscape  portrait     w  h   letter     c   canvas Canvas str file   pagesize portrait letter       for png in figs          c drawImage png  x  h - y  width wi  height he          c showPage       c save                  from datetime import date from pathlib import Path ruta    quot C  SQLite quot  today   date today   dat dir   Path ruta  tit   today strftime  quot  y m d quot       ParameterAudit  pdf file   tit    quot  pdf quot  pdf path   dat dir   pdf file pnglist     C0 png    C4387 png    C9712 png    C9685 png    C4364 png   pntopd pdf path  pnglist  50  550  500  500

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Here is ilovecomputer s answer packed into a function and directly usable  It also allows to reduce image sizes and works well   The code assumes a folder inside input dir that contains images ordered alphabetically by their name and outputs a pdf with the name of the folder and potentially a prefix string for the name   import os from PIL import Image  def convert images to pdf export dir  input dir  folder  prefix     quality 20       current dir   os path join input dir  folder      image files   os listdir current dir      im list    Image open os path join current dir  image file   for image file in image files       pdf filename   os path join export dir  prefix   folder     pdf       im list 0  save pdf filename   PDF   quality quality  optimize True  save all True  append images im list 1     export dir   r D  pdfs  input dir   r D  image folders  folders   os listdir input dir   convert images to pdf export dir  input dir  folder  prefix     for folder in folders

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first pip install pillow in command line Interface  Images can be in jpg or png format  if you have 2 or more images and want to make in 1 pdf file  Code  from PIL import Image  image1   Image open r locationOfImage1  Image1 png   image2   Image open r locationOfImage2  Image2 png   image3   Image open r locationOfImage3  Image3 png    im1   image1 convert  RGB   im2   image2 convert  RGB   im3   image3 convert  RGB    imagelist    im2 im3   im1 save r locationWherePDFWillBeSaved  CombinedPDF pdf  save all True  append images imagelist

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Convert images files to pdf file      from os import listdir from fpdf import FPDF  path     home bunny images     get the path of images  imagelist   listdir path    get list of all images  pdf   FPDF  P   mm   A4     create an A4-size pdf document   x y w h   0 0 200 250  for image in imagelist       pdf add page       pdf image path image x y w h   pdf output  images pdf   F

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The best method to convert multiple images to PDF I have tried so far is to use PIL purely  It s quite simple yet powerful   from PIL import Image  im1   Image open   Users apple Desktop bbd jpg   im2   Image open   Users apple Desktop bbd1 jpg   im3   Image open   Users apple Desktop bbd2 jpg   im list    im2 im3   pdf1 filename     Users apple Desktop bbd1 pdf   im1 save pdf1 filename   PDF   resolution 100 0  save all True  append images im list    Just set save all to True and append images to the list of images which you want to add   You might encounter the AttributeError   JpegImageFile  object has no attribute  encoderinfo   The solution is here Error while saving multiple JPEGs as a multi-page PDF  Note Install the newest PIL to make sure save all argument is available for PDF

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Some changes to make a pdf from the dir where the files are  I take the code and made some slight change to make it useable as it is   from fpdf import FPDF from PIL import Image import os   I added this and the code at the end  def makePdf pdfFileName  listPages  dir          if  dir           dir             cover   Image open dir   str listPages 0        width  height   cover size      pdf   FPDF unit  pt   format  width  height        for page in listPages          pdf add page           pdf image dir   str page   0  0       pdf output dir   pdfFileName     pdf    F       this is what I added x    f for f in os listdir   if f endswith   jpg    y   len x   makePdf  file   x

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pgmagick is a GraphicsMagick Magick    binding for Python   It s is a Python wrapper for for ImageMagick  or GraphicsMagick    import os from os import listdir from os path import isfile  join  from pgmagick import Image  mypath     Images    path to your Image directory   for each file in listdir mypath       if isfile join mypath each file            image path   os path join mypath each file          pdf path    os path join mypath each file rsplit      1  0    pdf           img   Image image path          img write pdf path      Sample input Image      PDF looks like this      pgmagick iinstallation instruction for windows   1  Download precompiled binary packages from the Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages  as mentioned in the pgmagick web page  and install it   Note   Try to download correct version corresponding to your python version installed in your machine and whether its 32bit installation or 64bit   You can check whether you have 32bit or 64bit python by just typing python at your terminal and press Enter    D   gt python ActivePython 2 7 2 5  ActiveState Software Inc   based on Python 2 7 2  default  Jun 24 2011  12 21 10   MSC v 1500 32 bit  Intel   on win32 Type  help    copyright    credits  or  license  for more information    So it has python version 2 7 and its of 32 bit  Intel   on win32 so you have to downlad and install pgmagick-0 5 8 win32-py2 7 exe   These are the following available Python Extension Packages for pgmagick    pgmagick-0 5 8 win-amd64-py2 6 exe pgmagick-0 5 8 win-amd64-py2 7 exe pgmagick-0 5 8 win-amd64-py3 2 exe pgmagick-0 5 8 win32-py2 6 exe pgmagick-0 5 8 win32-py2 7 exe pgmagick-0 5 8 win32-py3 2 exe   2  Then you can follow installation instruction from here   pip install pgmagick   An then try to import it    gt  gt  gt  from pgmagick import gminfo  gt  gt  gt  gminfo version  1 3 x   gt  gt  gt  gminfo library  GraphicsMagick   gt  gt  gt

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If your images are in landscape mode  you can do like this  from fpdf import FPDF import os  sys  glob from tqdm import tqdm  pdf   FPDF  L    mm    A4   im width   1920 im height   1080  aspect ratio   im height im width page width   297   page height   aspect ratio   page width page height   200 left margin   0 right margin   0    imagelist is the list with all image filenames for image in tqdm sorted glob glob  test images   png      pdf add page   pdf image image  left margin  right margin  page width  page height  pdf output  quot mypdf pdf quot    quot F quot   print  Conversion completed     Here page width and page height is the size of  A4  paper where in landscape its width will 297mm and height will be 210mm  but here I have adjusted the height as per my image  OR you can use either maintaining the aspect ratio as I have commented above for proper scaling of both width and height of the image

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If your images are plots you created mith matplotlib  you can use matplotlib backends backend pdf PdfPages  See documentation    import matplotlib pyplot as plt from matplotlib backends backend pdf import PdfPages    generate a list with dummy plots    figs      for i in  -1  1       fig   plt figure       plt plot  1  2  3    i 1  i 2  i 3       figs append fig     gerate a multipage pdf  with PdfPages  multipage pdf pdf   as pdf      for fig in figs          pdf savefig fig          plt close

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What worked for me in python 3 7 and img2pdf version 0 4 0 was to use something similar to the code given by Syed Shamikh Shabbir but changing the current working directory using OS as Stu suggested in his comment to Syed s solution import os import img2pdf  path      path to folder  os chdir path  images    i for i in os listdir os getcwd    if i endswith  quot  jpg quot     for image in images      with open image  -4     quot  pdf quot    quot wb quot   as f          f write img2pdf convert image    It is worth mentioning this solution above saves each  jpg separately in one single pdf  If you want all your  jpg files together in only one  pdf you could do  import os import img2pdf  path      path to folder  os chdir path  images    i for i in os listdir os getcwd    if i endswith  quot  jpg quot     with open  quot output pdf quot    quot wb quot   as f      f write img2pdf convert images

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If you use Python 3  you can use the python module img2pdf install it using pip3 install img2pdf and then you can use it in a script using import img2pdf sample code import os import img2pdf  with open  quot output pdf quot    quot wb quot   as f      f write img2pdf convert  i for i in os listdir  path to imageDir   if i endswith  quot  jpg quot       or  If you get any error with previous approach due to some path issue    convert all files matching a glob import glob with open  quot name pdf quot   quot wb quot   as f      f write img2pdf convert glob glob  quot  path to   jpg quot

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I know the question has been answered but one more way to solve this is using the pillow library   To convert a whole directory of images   from PIL import Image import os   def makePdf imageDir  SaveToDir                    imageDir  Directory of your images         SaveToDir  Location Directory for your pdfs             os chdir imageDir      try          for j in os listdir os getcwd                 os chdir imageDir              fname  fext   os path splitext j              newfilename   fname     pdf              im   Image open fname   fext              if im mode     RGBA                   im   im convert  RGB               os chdir SaveToDir              if not os path exists newfilename                   im save newfilename   PDF   resolution 100 0      except Exception as e          print e   imageDir   r         your imagedirectory path SaveToDir   r         diretory in which you want to save the pdfs makePdf imageDir  SaveToDir    For using it on an single image   From PIL import Image import os  filename   r  Desktop document dog png  im   Image open filename  if im mode     RGBA       im   im convert  RGB   new filename   r  Desktop document dog pdf  if not os path exists new filename       im save new filename  PDF  resolution 100 0

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Ready-to-use solution that converts all PNG in the current folder to a PDF  inspired by  ilovecomputer s answer   import glob  PIL Image L    PIL Image open f  for f in glob glob    png    L 0  save  out pdf    PDF   resolution 100 0  save all True  append images L 1      Nothing else than PIL is needed

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How about this       from fpdf import FPDF from PIL import Image import glob import os     set here image directory     path to imageDir  extensions       jpg     png     gif    add your image extentions   set 0 if you want to fit pdf to image   unit   pt margin   10  imagelist    for ext in extensions      imagelist extend glob glob os path join image directory ext     for imagePath in imagelist      cover   Image open imagePath      width  height   cover size  pdf   FPDF unit  pt   format  width   2 margin  height   2 margin   pdf add page    pdf image imagePath  margin  margin   destination   os path splitext imagePath  0  pdf output destination     pdf    F

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I had the same problem  so I created a python function to unite multiple pictures in one pdf  The code  available from my github page  uses reportlab  and is based on answers from the following links    Create PDF from a list of images   Combining multiple pngs in a single pdf in python png images to one pdf in python   How can I convert all JPG files in a folder to PDFs and combine them    https   www blog pythonlibrary org 2012 01 07 reportlab-converting-hundreds-of-images-into-pdfs    Here is example of how to unite images into pdf   We have folder  D  pictures  with pictures of types png and jpg  and we want to create file pdf with pictures pdf out of them and save it in the same folder   outputPdfName    pdf with pictures  pathToSavePdfTo    D   pictures  pathToPictures    D   pictures  splitType    none  numberOfEntitiesInOnePdf   1 listWithImagesExtensions     png    jpg   picturesAreInRootFolder   True nameOfPart    volume   unite pictures into pdf outputPdfName  pathToSavePdfTo  pathToPictures  splitType  numberOfEntitiesInOnePdf  listWithImagesExtensions  picturesAreInRootFolder  nameOfPart

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Install FPDF for Python   pip install fpdf   Now you can use the same logic   from fpdf import FPDF pdf   FPDF     imagelist is the list with all image filenames for image in imagelist      pdf add page       pdf image image x y w h  pdf output  yourfile pdf    F     You can find more info at the tutorial page or the official documentation

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