Create PDF from a list of images

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

images = [
    Image.open("/Users/apple/Desktop/" + f)
    for f in ["bbd.jpg", "bbd1.jpg", "bbd2.jpg"]
]

pdf_path = "/Users/apple/Desktop/bbd1.pdf"
    
images[0].save(
    pdf_path, "PDF" ,resolution=100.0, save_all=True, append_images=images[1:]
)

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.


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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Python

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