PDF Merge Website (Python)

Merging multiple PDFs seems to be a common request, and most people don’t want to spend a small fortune on a tool to do the merging. I first looked at this problem with an early Python project (https://geektechstuff.com/2018/02/17/python-3-merge-multiple-pdfs-into-one-pdf/) and later improved on that project by adding a simple GUI (https://geektechstuff.com/2018/07/04/pdf-merge-with-gui-v2-python/).

Now I have gone a step further and created the PDF merge tool in a Flask powered website. I’ve even created the relevant Docker file so that it can be containerised if needed.

Note: I’m using this in my development environment, if you are going to make it live in a production environment make sure to tidy up some of the features / security etc.

geektechstuff_pdfmerge_flask_docker — If running in a Docker container note my current HTML references port 4000!

Python:

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# geektechstuff PDF Merge as a Flask site

from flask import Flask, render_template, request

from werkzeug import secure_filename

import PyPDF2

import datetime

import random

now = datetime.datetime.now()

app = Flask(__name__, static_folder=”, static_url_path=”)

@app.route(‘/pdf’)

def upload_file():

return render_template(‘pdf.html’)

@app.route(‘/pdfmerge’, methods = [‘GET’, ‘POST’])

def upload_files():

pdfWriter = PyPDF2.PdfFileWriter()

if request.method ==’POST’:

files_to_upload = request.files.getlist(“file”)

print(files_to_upload)

for item in files_to_upload:

f = item

f.save(secure_filename(f.filename))

pdfFileObj = open(f.filename, ‘rb’)

pdfReader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdfFileObj)

for pageNum inrange(pdfReader.numPages):

pageObj = pdfReader.getPage(pageNum)

pdfWriter.addPage(pageObj)

date = str(now.strftime(“%Y-%m-%d”))

rand = str(random.randint(1,10000))

seq = date+rand

file_name_pdf = ‘geektechstuff’+seq+’.pdf’

pdfOutput=open(file_name_pdf,’wb’)

pdfWriter.write(pdfOutput)

pdfOutput.close()

return app.send_static_file(file_name_pdf)

if __name__ == ‘__main__’:

app.run(host=”0.0.0.0″,port=80)

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geektechstuff_pdfmerge_flask — Python Flask to merge PDFs

HTML:

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Running the site:

geektechstuff_pdf_merge_site — PDF Merge site up and running

To run the site copy the files from my Github (link below) and save them into a folder (something like “geektechstuff_pdf_merge_flask”), via the terminal navigate into the folder and either run:

FLASK_APP=pdfmerge.py flask run

Then open a web browser and navigate to the appropriate host (Flask will say what address:port it is running on).

build the included Docker file and run the container in Docker.

The files for this project can be found on my Github: https://github.com/geektechdude/Python_PDF_Merge_Flask_Site

Notes (Or things I need to sort in next version):