ILovePyPdf🐍❤️

A Python utility for compressing PDF files while maintaining reasonable quality. This tool provides a simple yet effective way to reduce PDF file sizes for easier sharing and storage.

Features

• Compress PDF files with customizable quality settings
• Maintain reasonable document quality
• Track compression progress
• Generate detailed compression statistics
• Error handling and logging
• Support for both high-quality and maximum compression modes

Requirements

• Python 3.6 or higher
• PyPDF2 library

Installation

1. Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/louire/ILovePyPdf.git
cd ILovePyPdf

2. Install required dependencies:

pip install PyPDF2`

Usage

Basic Usage

`from pdf_compressor import compress_pdf`

`# Compress with high quality (default)`
`compress_pdf("input.pdf", "output_compressed.pdf")`

`# Compress with lower quality for smaller file size`
`compress_pdf("input.pdf", "output_compressed.pdf", high_quality=False)`

Command Line Usage

python pdf_compressor.py

Example Output

Processing 5 pages...`
Compressed page 1/5`
Compressed page 2/5`
Compressed page 3/5`
Compressed page 4/5`
Compressed page 5/5`
Saving compressed file...`

Compression completed successfully!`
Original size: 1024.55 KB`
Compressed size: 428.73 KB`
Reduction: 58.2%`
Processing time: 2.34 seconds`

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

Author

@louire

Acknowledgments

• PyPDF2 library and its contributors