Split PDF programmatically in Python

Splitting PDF pages can be a useful feature for those who want to split a large file into separate pages or groups of pages.

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Aspose.PDF Splitter is an online free web application that allows you to investigate how presentation splitting functionality works.

This topic shows how to split PDF pages into individual PDF files in your Python C++ applications. To split PDF pages into single page PDF files using Python, the following steps can be followed:

The code snippet sets up the necessary directories and file paths, opens a PDF document, and then loops through each page of the document. For each page, it creates a new document, copies the current page to the new document, and saves the new document as a separate PDF file with a specific naming convention.

1. Open the input document
2. Initialize the page count
3. Loop through all the pages of the document

Split PDF into multiple files or separate PDFs in Python

The following Python code snippet shows you how to split PDF pages into individual PDF files.

    import AsposePDFPythonWrappers as apw
    import AsposePDFPython as apCore
    import os
    import os.path

    dataDir = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "samples")
    input_file= os.path.join(dataDir , "sample.pdf")
    outputFolder = os.path.join(dataDir , "results")
    # Open document
    document = apw.Document(inputFile)

    pageCount = 1

    # Loop through all the pages

    while (pageCount <= document.pages.count()):
        page = document.pages[pageCount]    
        newDocument = apw.Document()
        newDocument.pages.copy_page(page)
        newDocument.save(os.path.join(outputFolder,"page_" + str(pageCount) + "_out" + ".pdf"))
        pageCount += 1