Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder

[vasishtha.spier at gmail.com]

On Thursday, January 16, 2014 11:41:04 AM UTC-8, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 16/01/2014 19:11, Harry Spier wrote:
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> > Dear list members,
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> > I have a directory that contains about a hundred subdirectories named
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> > J0001,J0002,J0003 . . . etc.
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> > Each of these subdirectories contains about a hundred JPEGs named
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> > P001.jpg, P002.jpg, P003.jpg etc.
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> > I need to write a python script that will cycle thru each directory and
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> > convert ALL JPEGs in each directory into a single PDF file and save
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> > these PDF files (one per directory) to an output file.
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> > Any pointers on how to do this with a Python script would be
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> > appreciated. Reading on the internet it appears that using ImageMagick
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> > wouldn't work because of using too much memory. Can this be done using
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> > the Python Image Library or some other library? Any sample code would
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> > also be appreciated.
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> The usual go-to library for PDF generation is ReportLab. I haven't used 
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> it for a long while but I'm quite certain it would have no problem 
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> including images.
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> Do I take it that it's the PDF-generation side of things you're asking 
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> about? Or do you need help iterating over hundreds of directories and files?
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> TJG

Its mostly the PDF generating side I need but I haven't yet used the Python directory and file traversing functions so an example of this would also be useful especially showing how I could capture the directory name and use that as the name of the pdf file I'm creating from the directory contents.

Thanks again,
Harry