simonerigoni / convert_images_to_pdf

Convert images to pdf

Convert images to PDF

Introduction

Many times you have to create a PDF staring from a list of images. The idea is to run an exe file from any folder on the PC that will take in input some images filename and it will create a PDF file. The order of the images in the PDF will be the same in which the images are passed to the exe. By default the output filename will be merge.pdf

Software and Libraries

This project uses Python 3.9.5 and the following libraries:

• pyinstaller
• PIL

More informations in requirements.txt. To create it I have used python -m pip freeze > requirements.txt. To install all Python packages written in the requirements.txt file run pip install -r requirements.txt.

Build

To build the .exe file and place it in %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\Scripts you have to run deploy.cmd

To check the value of the environment variable %USERPROFILE% with Windows PowerShell you have to run $env:USERPROFILE while on the command line you can simply run echo %USERPROFILE%

Running the code

From any folder of your PC you can open a command promt and run convert_images_to_pdf.exe image_1.jpeg image_2.jpeg and in the same folder a merge.pdf file will be created

You can find more information in this blog post

Acknowledgements

Thanks to datatofish.com for the tips about how to convert images to PDF using python