A simple, pure python library, for reading the raw contents of PDF files and writing PDF files composed of images, e.g. from scanned images.

• Native support for PNG compressed images.
• With the help of an external compressor support for JBIG2 compressed images (excellent compression of black and white text, for example).

Pure python, with:

• PIL the pillow fork for image manipulation
• Numpy for fast PNG compression
• Optional use of JBIG2 requires a compiled version of jbig2enc. For windows, download here

Build from source:

python setup.py install

or directly from GitHub:

pip install https://github.com/MatthewDaws/PDFImage/zipball/master

See the Jupyter notebooks for some examples.