Automate the Boring Stuff with Python - Part 16: Working with PDF and Word Documents
Learn Python programming to automate your daily work, e.g. web scraping, working with Excel documents and Google Drive.
We cover chapter 15 of the book Automate the boring stuff with Python by Al Sweigart - covering working with PDF and Word documents in Python.
Follow along to learn Python programming and make your life easier with automation.
Link to book (Amazon): https://amzn.to/3DY0C1G
Read for free online: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/2e...
Music (Epidemic sound): https://bit.ly/3JD0PZk
Song: The Uneven Path - Trevor Kowalski
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:41 - Working with PDF documents in Python
3:46 - Decrypting PDF documents
5:12 - Creating PDFs
5:51 - Copying PDF pages
9:19 - Rotating pages in PDF documents
10:44 - Overlaying PDF pages
12:55 - Encrypting PDF documents
14:24 - Project: Combining Select Pages from many PDFs
17:16 - Reading Word documents
19:05 - Getting the full text from a Word file
19:37 - Creating Word documents from code
20:07 - Adding headings to Word documents
20:34 - Practice questions
Download resources (PDF and Word example documents) from https://nostarch.com/automatestuff2/