I'm working on a project which takes some images from user and then creates a PDF file which contains all of these images.
Is there any way or any tool to do this in Python? E.g. to create a PDF file (or eps, ps) from image1 + image 2 + image 3 -> PDF file?
I suggest pyPdf. It works really nice. I also wrote a blog post some while ago, you can find it here.
You can try this(Python-for-PDF-Generation) or you can try PyQt, which has support for printing to pdf.
Python for PDF Generation
The Portable Document Format (PDF) lets you create documents that look exactly the same on every platform. Sometimes a PDF document needs to be generated dynamically, however, and that can be quite a challenge. Fortunately, there are libraries that can help. This article examines one of those for Python.
Read more at http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/Python-for-PDF-Generation/#whoCFCPh3TAks368.99
If you are familiar with LaTex you might want to consider pylatex
One of the advantages of pylatex is that it is easy to control the image quality. The images in your pdf will be of the same quality as the original images. When using reportlab, I experienced that the images were automatically compressed, and the image quality reduced.
The disadvantage of pylatex is that, since it is based on LaTex, it can be hard to place images exactly where you want on the page. However, I have found that using the position argument in the Figure class, and sometimes Subfigure, gives good enough results.
Example code for creating a pdf with a single image:
from pylatex import Document, Figure
doc = Document(documentclass="article")
with doc.create(Figure(position='p')) as fig:
fig.add_image('Lenna.png')
doc.generate_pdf('test', compiler='latexmk', compiler_args=["-pdf", "-pdflatex=pdflatex"], clean_tex=True)
In addition to installing pylatex (pip install pylatex), you need to install LaTex. For Ubuntu and other Debian systems you can run sudo apt-get install texlive-full. If you are using Windows I would recommend MixTex
I have done this quite a bit in PyQt and it works very well. Qt has extensive support for images, fonts, styles, etc and all of those can be written out to pdf documents.
It depends on what format your image files are in, but for a project here at work I used the tiff2pdf tool in LibTIFF from RemoteSensing.org. Basically just used subprocess to call tiff2pdf.exe with the appropriate argument to read the kind of tiff I had and output the kind of pdf I wanted. If they aren't tiffs you could probably convert them to tiffs using PIL, or maybe find a tool more specific to your image type (or more generic if the images will be diverse) like ReportLab mentioned above.