Building a PDF Splitter Application
Posted by Chris Moffitt in articles
I recently had the need to take a couple pages out of a PDF and save it to a new PDF. This is a fairly simple task but every time I do it, it takes some time to figure out the right command line parameters to make it work. In addition, my co-workers wanted similar functionality and since they are not comfortable on the command line, I wanted to build a small graphical front end for this task.
One solution is to use Gooey which is a really good option that I cover in my prior article. However, I wanted to try out another library and decided to give appJar a try. This article will walk through an example of using appJar to create a GUI that allows a user to select a PDF, strip out one or more pages and save it to a new file. This approach is simple, useful and shows how to integrate a GUI into other python applications you create.