Place image over PDF

Question

How can I place an image over an existing PDF file at an specific coordinate location. The pdf represents a drawing sheet with one page. The image will be scaled. I'm checking ReportLab but can't find the answer. Thanks.

Answer 1

Its been 5 years, I think these answers need some TLC. Here is a complete solution.

The following is tested with Python 2.7

Install dependencies

pip install reportlab  pip install pypdf2 

Do the magic

from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas from PyPDF2 import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader  # Create the watermark from an image c = canvas.Canvas('watermark.pdf')  # Draw the image at x, y. I positioned the x,y to be where i like here c.drawImage('test.png', 15, 720)  # Add some custom text for good measure c.drawString(15, 720,"Hello World") c.save()  # Get the watermark file you just created watermark = PdfFileReader(open("watermark.pdf", "rb"))  # Get our files ready output_file = PdfFileWriter() input_file = PdfFileReader(open("test2.pdf", "rb"))  # Number of pages in input document page_count = input_file.getNumPages()  # Go through all the input file pages to add a watermark to them for page_number in range(page_count):     print "Watermarking page {} of {}".format(page_number, page_count)     # merge the watermark with the page     input_page = input_file.getPage(page_number)     input_page.mergePage(watermark.getPage(0))     # add page from input file to output document     output_file.addPage(input_page)  # finally, write "output" to document-output.pdf with open("document-output.pdf", "wb") as outputStream:     output_file.write(outputStream) 

References:

New home of pypdf: http://mstamy2.github.io/PyPDF2/

Reportlab docs: http://www.reportlab.com/apis/reportlab/2.4/pdfgen.html

Reportlab complete user guide: https://www.reportlab.com/docs/reportlab-userguide.pdf

Answer 2

http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/:

from pyPdf import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader  output = PdfFileWriter() input1 = PdfFileReader(file("document1.pdf", "rb")) watermark = PdfFileReader(file("watermark.pdf", "rb"))  input1.mergePage(watermark.getPage(0))  # finally, write "output" to document-output.pdf outputStream = file("document-output.pdf", "wb") output.write(input1) outputStream.close() 

I think it's like watermark, see the manual for better idea