Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators

Rotating PDF pages

In this section, we are going to see how to rotate PDF pages. For that, we will use the rotate.Clockwise() method of a PDF object. Create a script called rotate_pdf.py and write the following content in it:

import PyPDF2with open('test.pdf', 'rb') as pdf:    rd_pdf = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdf)    wr_pdf = PyPDF2.PdfFileWriter()    for pg_num in range(rd_pdf.numPages):        pdf_page = rd_pdf.getPage(pg_num)        pdf_page.rotateClockwise(90)        wr_pdf.addPage(pdf_page)    with open('rotated.pdf', 'wb') as pdf_out:        wr_pdf.write(pdf_out)print("pdf successfully rotated")

Run the script and you will get the following output:

student@ubuntu:~/work$ python3 rotate_pdf.py

Following is the output:

pdf successfully rotated

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