DESCRIPTION

usage: img2pdf.py [-h] [-v] [-V] [-o out] [-C colorspace] [-D]

[--without-pdfrw] [-S LxL] [-s LxL] [-b L[:L]] [-f FIT] [-a] [--title title] [--author author] [--creator creator] [--producer producer] [--creationdate creationdate] [--moddate moddate] [--subject subject] [--keywords kw [kw ...]] [--viewer-panes PANES] [--viewer-initial-page NUM] [--viewer-magnification MAG] [--viewer-page-layout LAYOUT] [--viewer-fit-window] [--viewer-center-window] [--viewer-fullscreen] [infile [infile ...]]

Losslessly convert raster images to PDF without re-encoding JPEG and JPEG2000 images. This leads to a lossless conversion of JPEG and JPEG2000 images with the only added file size coming from the PDF container itself.

Other raster graphics formats are losslessly stored in a zip/flate encoding of their RGB representation. This might increase file size and does not store transparency. There is nothing that can be done about that until the PDF format allows embedding other image formats like PNG. Thus, img2pdf is primarily useful to convert JPEG and JPEG2000 images to PDF.

The output is sent to standard output so that it can be redirected into a file or to another program as part of a shell pipe. To directly write the output into a file, use the -o or --output option.

positional arguments:

infile

Specifies the input file(s) in any format that can be read by the Python Imaging Library (PIL). If no input images are given, then a single image is read from standard input. The special filename "-" can be used once to read an image from standard input. To read a file in the current directory with the filename "-", pass it to img2pdf by explicitly stating its relative path like "./-".

optional arguments:

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

-v, --verbose

Makes the program operate in verbose mode, printing messages on standard error.

-V, --version

Prints version information and exits.

General output arguments:

-o out, --output out

Makes the program output to a file instead of standard output.

-C colorspace, --colorspace colorspace

Forces the PIL colorspace. See the epilogue for a list of possible values. Usually the PDF colorspace would be derived from the color space of the input image. This option overwrites the automatically detected colorspace from the input image and thus forces a certain colorspace in the output PDF ,/ColorSpace/ property. This is useful for JPEG 2000 images with a different colorspace than RGB.

-D, --nodate

Suppresses timestamps in the output and thus makes the output deterministic between individual runs. You can also manually set a date using the --moddate and --creationdate options.

--without-pdfrw

By default, img2pdf uses the pdfrw library to create the output PDF if pdfrw is available. If you want to use the internal PDF generator of img2pdf even if pdfrw is present, then pass this option. This can be useful if you want to have unicode metadata values which pdfrw does not yet support (See https://github.com/pmaupin/pdfrw/issues/39) or if you want the PDF code to be more human readable.

Image and page size and layout arguments:

Every input image will be placed on its own page.

The image size is controlled

by the dpi value of the input image or, if unset or missing, the default dpi of 96.00. By default, each page will have the same size as the image it shows. Thus, there will be no visible border between the image and the page border by default. If image size and page size are made different from each other by the options in this section, the image will always be centered in both dimensions.

The image size and page size can be explicitly set using the --imgsize and --pagesize options, respectively. If either dimension of the image size is specified but the same dimension of the page size is not, then the latter will be derived from the former using an optional minimal distance between the image and the page border (given by the --border option) and/or a certain fitting strategy (given by the --fit option). The converse happens if a dimension of the page size is set but the same dimension of the image size is not.

Any length value in below options is represented by the meta variable L which is a floating point value with an optional unit appended (without a space between them). The default unit is pt (1/72 inch, the PDF unit) and other allowed units are cm (centimeter), mm (millimeter), and in (inch).

Any size argument of the format LxL in the options below specifies the width and height of a rectangle where the first L represents the width and the second L represents the height with an optional unit following each value as described above. Either width or height may be omitted but in that case the separating x must still be present. Instead of giving the width and height explicitly, you may also specify some (case-insensitive) common page sizes such as letter and A4. See the epilogue at the bottom for a complete list of the valid sizes.

The --fit option scales to fit the image into a rectangle that is either derived from the the --imgsize option or otherwise from the --pagesize option. If the --border option is given in addition to the --imgsize option while the --pagesize option is not given, then the page size will be calculated from the image size, respecting the border setting. If the --border option is given in addition to the --pagesize option while the --imgsize option is not given, then the image size will be calculated from the page size, respecting the border setting. If the --border option is given while both the --pagesize and --imgsize options are passed, then the --border option will be ignored.

-S LxL, --pagesize LxL

Sets the size of the PDF pages. The short-option is the upper case S because it is an mnemonic for being bigger than the image size.

-s LxL, --imgsize LxL

Sets the size of the images on the PDF pages. In addition, the unit dpi is allowed which will set the image size as a value of dots per inch. Instead of a unit, width and height values may also have a percentage sign appended, indicating a resize of the image by that percentage. The short-option is the lower case s because it is an mnemonic for being smaller than the page size.

-b L[:L], --border L[:L]

Specifies the minimal distance between the image border and the PDF page border. This value Is overwritten by explicit values set by --pagesize or --imgsize. The value will be used when calculating page dimensions from the image dimensions or the other way round. One, or two length values can be given as an argument, separated by a colon. One value specifies the minimal border on all four sides. Two values specify the minimal border on the top/bottom and left/right, respectively. It is not possible to specify asymmetric borders because images will always be centered on the page.

-f FIT, --fit FIT

If --imgsize is given, fits the image using these dimensions. Otherwise, fit the image into the dimensions given by --pagesize. FIT is one of into, fill, exact, shrink and enlarge. The default value is "into". See the epilogue at the bottom for a description of the FIT options.

-a, --auto-orient

If both dimensions of the page are given via --pagesize, conditionally swaps these dimensions such that the page orientation is the same as the orientation of the input image. If the orientation of a page gets flipped, then so do the values set via the --border option.

Arguments setting metadata:

--title title

Sets the title metadata value

--author author

Sets the author metadata value

--creator creator

Sets the creator metadata value

--producer producer

Sets the producer metadata value

--creationdate creationdate

Sets the UTC creation date metadata value in YYYY-MMDD or YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM or YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS format or any format understood by python dateutil module or any format understood by `date --date`

--moddate moddate

Sets the UTC modification date metadata value in YYYYMM-DD or YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM or YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS format or any format understood by python dateutil module or any format understood by `date --date`

--subject subject

Sets the subject metadata value

--keywords kw [kw ...]

Sets the keywords metadata value (can be given multiple times)

PDF viewer arguments:

PDF files can specify how they are meant to be presented to the user by a PDF viewer

--viewer-panes PANES

Instruct the PDF viewer which side panes to show. Valid values are "outlines" and "thumbs". It is not possible to specify both at the same time.

--viewer-initial-page NUM

Instead of showing the first page, instruct the PDF viewer to show the given page instead. Page numbers start with 1.

--viewer-magnification MAG

Instruct the PDF viewer to open the PDF with a certain zoom level. Valid values are either a floating point number giving the exact zoom level, "fit" (zoom to fit whole page), "fith" (zoom to fit page width) and "fitbh" (zoom to fit visible page width).

--viewer-page-layout LAYOUT

Instruct the PDF viewer how to arrange the pages on the screen. Valid values are "single" (display single pages), "onecolumn" (one continuous column), "twocolumnright" (two continuous columns with odd number pages on the right) and "twocolumnleft" (two continuous columns with odd numbered pages on the left)

--viewer-fit-window

Instruct the PDF viewer to resize the window to fit the page size

--viewer-center-window

Instruct the PDF viewer to center the PDF viewer window

--viewer-fullscreen

Instruct the PDF viewer to open the PDF in fullscreen mode

Colorspace

Currently, the colorspace must be forced for JPEG 2000 images that are not in the RGB colorspace. Available colorspace options are based on Python Imaging Library (PIL) short handles.

RGB

RGB color

L

Grayscale

1

Black and white (internally converted to grayscale)

CMYK

CMYK color

CMYK;I

CMYK color with inversion (for CMYK JPEG files from Adobe)

Paper sizes

You can specify the short hand paper size names shown in the first column in the table below as arguments to the --pagesize and --imgsize options. The width and height they are mapping to is shown in the second column. Giving the value in the second column has the same effect as giving the short hand in the first column. Appending ^T (a caret/circumflex followed by the letter T) turns the paper size from portrait into landscape. The postfix thus symbolizes the transpose. The values are case insensitive.

A0

841mmx1189mm

A1

594mmx841mm

A2

420mmx594mm

A3

297mmx420mm

A4

210mmx297mm

A5

148mmx210mm

A6

105mmx148mm

Letter

8.5inx11in

Fit options

The img2pdf options for the --fit argument are shown in the first column in the table below. The function of these options can be mapped to the geometry operators of imagemagick. For users who are familiar with imagemagick, the corresponding operator is shown in the second column. The third column shows whether or not the aspect ratio is preserved for that option (same as in imagemagick). Just like imagemagick, img2pdf tries hard to preserve the aspect ratio, so if the --fit argument is not given, then the default is "into" which corresponds to the absence of any operator in imagemagick. The value of the --fit option is case insensitive.

into

| | Y | The default. Width and height values specify maximum | | | values.

---------+---+---+----------------------------------------------------------

fill

| ^ | Y | Width and height values specify the minimum values.

---------+---+---+----------------------------------------------------------

exact

| ! | N | Width and height emphatically given.

---------+---+---+----------------------------------------------------------

shrink

| > | Y | Shrinks an image with dimensions larger than the given | | | ones (and otherwise behaves like "into").

---------+---+---+----------------------------------------------------------

enlarge | < | Y | Enlarges an image with dimensions smaller than the given

|

| | ones (and otherwise behaves like "into").

Examples

Lines starting with a dollar sign denote commands you can enter into your terminal. The dollar sign signifies your command prompt. It is not part of the command you type.

Convert two scans in JPEG format to a PDF document.

$ img2pdf --output out.pdf page1.jpg page2.jpg

Convert a directory of JPEG images into a PDF with printable A4 pages in landscape mode. On each page, the photo takes the maximum amount of space while preserving its aspect ratio and a print border of 2 cm on the top and bottom and 2.5 cm on the left and right hand side.

$ img2pdf --output out.pdf --pagesize A4^T --border 2cm:2.5cm *.jpg

On each A4 page, fit images into a 10 cm times 15 cm rectangle but keep the original image size if the image is smaller than that.

$ img2pdf --output out.pdf -S A4 --imgsize 10cmx15cm --fit shrink *.jpg

Prepare a directory of photos to be printed borderless on photo paper with a 3:2 aspect ratio and rotate each page so that its orientation is the same as the input image.

$ img2pdf --output out.pdf --pagesize 15cmx10cm --auto-orient *.jpg

Encode a grayscale JPEG2000 image. The colorspace has to be forced as img2pdf cannot read it from the JPEG2000 file automatically.

$ img2pdf --output out.pdf --colorspace L input.jp2

Argument parsing

Argument long options can be abbreviated to a prefix if the abbreviation is anambiguous. That is, the prefix must match a unique option.

Beware of your shell interpreting argument values as special characters (like the semicolon in the CMYK;I colorspace option). If in doubt, put the argument values in single quotes.

If you want an argument value to start with one or more minus characters, you must use the long option name and join them with an equal sign like so:

$ img2pdf --author=--test--

If your input file name starts with one or more minus characters, either separate the input files from the other arguments by two minus signs:

$ img2pdf -- --my-file-starts-with-two-minuses.jpg

Or be more explicit about its relative path by prepending a ./:

$ img2pdf ./--my-file-starts-with-two-minuses.jpg

The order of non-positional arguments (all arguments other than the input images) does not matter.