Install, create and read a PDF - oxidize-pdf for Python

Use CPython 3.10 or newer in a virtual environment:

python -m venv .venv# Activate .venv with the command appropriate to your shell.python -m pip install "oxidize-pdf==0.23.3"

Save the following as hello.py. It creates a PDF in the working directory, reopens it and prints the page text.

from oxidize_pdf import Document, Font, Page, PdfReaderdocument = Document()page = Page.a4()page.set_font(Font.HELVETICA, 18.0)page.text_at(72.0, 750.0, "Hello from oxidize-pdf!")document.add_page(page)document.save("hello.pdf")reader = PdfReader.open("hello.pdf")for text in reader.extract_text():    print(text)

Run python hello.py. The output should contain Hello from oxidize-pdf!.

Coordinates use PDF points (72 points per inch), with the origin at the bottom left for this page. Extraction reads a text layer; this example does not perform OCR on scanned images.

For inputs supplied by a caller, handle the package’s errors explicitly:

from oxidize_pdf import PdfError, PdfIoError, PdfParseError, PdfReadertry:    reader = PdfReader.open("missing.pdf")except PdfIoError as error:    print(f"Cannot read file: {error}")except PdfParseError as error:    print(f"Cannot parse PDF: {error}")except PdfError as error:    print(f"PDF operation failed: {error}")