PDF merging without tears

I guess nobody needs a cumbersome Acrobat software to merge PDF files. And when things gets a little bit more complex, manually merging hundreds of PDFs can be a PIAS.

Use this:

from PyPDF2 import PdfFileMerger, PdfFileReader
import os


filenames = ["1.pdf", "2.pdf"]
merger = PdfFileMerger()
for filename in filenames:
    merger.append(PdfFileReader(file(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), filename), 'rb')))
merger.write(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "output.pdf"))

It works like magic. Put this .py file to the folder where you would like to have some PDFs merged, change filenames, and modify this script. Life is instantly easier.

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