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Lossless conversion of images to PDF without unnecessarily re-encoding JPEG and
JPEG2000 files. Thus, no loss of quality and no unnecessary large output file.
background
Background
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PDF is able to embed JPEG and JPEG2000 images as they are without re-encoding
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recompression, using existing tools, please contact me so that I can put this
code into the garbage bin :D
functionality
Functionality
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The program will take image filenames from commandline arguments and output a
@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ imagemagick. While a run of above convert command with a 2.8MB JPEG takes 27
seconds (on average) on my machine, conversion using img2pdf takes just a
fraction of a second.
commandline arguments
Commandline Arguments
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At least one input file argument must be given as img2pdf needs to seek in the
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More help is available with the -h or --help option.
bugs
Bugs
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If you find a JPEG or JPEG2000 file that, when embedded can not be read by the
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Therefor jpeg2000 files use DeviceRGB per default. If your jpeg2000 files are
of any other colorspace you must force it using the --colorspace option.
Like -C L for DeviceGray.
Installation
------------
You can install the package using:
$ pip install img2pdf
If you want to install from source code simply use:
$ cd img2pdf/
$ pip install .
To test the console script without installing the package on your system,
simply use virtualenv:
$ cd img2pdf/
$ virtualenv ve
$ ve/bin/pip install .
You can then test the converter using:
$ ve/bin/img2pdf -o test.pdf src/tests/test.jpg
Note that the package can also be used as a library as follows:
import img2pdf
pdf_bytes = img2pdf('test.jpg', dpi=150)