Cropping pages of a .pdf file

Question

I was wondering if anyone had any experience in working programmatically with .pdf files. I have a .pdf file and I need to crop every page down to a certain size.

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Answer 1

Use this to get the dimension of pdf

from PyPDF2 import PdfFileWriter,PdfFileReader,PdfFileMerger

pdf_file = PdfFileReader(open("/Users/user.name/Downloads/sample.pdf","rb"))
page = pdf_file.getPage(0)
print(page.cropBox.getLowerLeft())
print(page.cropBox.getLowerRight())
print(page.cropBox.getUpperLeft())
print(page.cropBox.getUpperRight())

After this get page reference and then apply crop command

page.mediaBox.lowerRight = (lower_right_new_x_coordinate, lower_right_new_y_coordinate)
page.mediaBox.lowerLeft = (lower_left_new_x_coordinate, lower_left_new_y_coordinate)
page.mediaBox.upperRight = (upper_right_new_x_coordinate, upper_right_new_y_coordinate)
page.mediaBox.upperLeft = (upper_left_new_x_coordinate, upper_left_new_y_coordinate)

#for example :- my custom coordinates 
#page.mediaBox.lowerRight = (611, 500)
#page.mediaBox.lowerLeft = (0, 500)
#page.mediaBox.upperRight = (611, 700)
#page.mediaBox.upperLeft = (0, 700)