在python3中通过PDF编写文本

时间:2017-11-30 12:14:22

标签: python python-3.x pdf canvas pypdf2

我正在尝试将某些字符串写入某个位置的PDF文件。 我找到了一种方法来实现它并实现它:

from PyPDF2 import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader
import io
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter

packet = io.StringIO()
# create a new PDF with Reportlab
can = canvas.Canvas(packet, pagesize=letter)
can.drawString(10, 100, "Hello world")
can.save()

#move to the beginning of the StringIO buffer
packet.seek(0)
new_pdf = PdfFileReader(packet)
# read your existing PDF
existing_pdf = PdfFileReader(file("original.pdf", "rb"))
output = PdfFileWriter()
# add the "watermark" (which is the new pdf) on the existing page
page = existing_pdf.getPage(0)
page.mergePage(new_pdf.getPage(0))
output.addPage(page)
# finally, write "output" to a real file
outputStream = file("destination.pdf", "wb")
output.write(outputStream)
outputStream.close()

它在can.save()

时抛出了一个错误

错误:

File "/home/corleone/miniconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/reportlab/pdfgen/canvas.py", line 1237, in save
    self._doc.SaveToFile(self._filename, self)
  File "/home/corleone/miniconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/reportlab/pdfbase/pdfdoc.py", line 224, in SaveToFile
    f.write(data)
TypeError: string argument expected, got 'bytes'

已经在互联网上的很多地方读过。到处找到相同的方法。这是错误的做法。我错过了什么吗?

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:6)

想通了我只需使用BytesIO而不是StringsIO

另外open()代替file(),因为我使用的是Python3。

这是工作脚本:

from PyPDF2 import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader
import io
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter

packet = io.BytesIO()
# Create a new PDF with Reportlab
can = canvas.Canvas(packet, pagesize=letter)
can.setFont('Helvetica-Bold', 24)
can.drawString(10, 100, "Hello world")
can.showPage()
can.save()

# Move to the beginning of the StringIO buffer
packet.seek(0)
new_pdf = PdfFileReader(packet)
# Read your existing PDF
existing_pdf = PdfFileReader(open("original.pdf", "rb"))
output = PdfFileWriter()
# Add the "watermark" (which is the new pdf) on the existing page
page = existing_pdf.getPage(0)
page.mergePage(new_pdf.getPage(0))
output.addPage(page)
# Finally, write "output" to a real file
outputStream = open("destination.pdf", "wb")
output.write(outputStream)
outputStream.close()