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Compress PDF in Python SDK

Optimize PDF Document using Cloud Python SDK.

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How to compress PDF via Cloud Python SDK

To compress PDF, we’ll use Aspose.PDF Cloud Python SDK. This Cloud SDK assists Python programmers in developing cloud-based PDF creator, annotator, editor, and converter apps using Python programming language via Aspose.PDF REST API. Simply create an account at Aspose for Cloud and get your application information. Once you have the App SID & key, you are ready to give the Aspose.PDF Cloud Python SDK. If the python package is hosted on Github, you can install directly from Github:

Installation from Github


     
    pip install git+https://github.com/aspose-pdf-cloud/aspose-pdf-cloud-python.git

Package Manager Console Command

     
    pip install asposepdfcloud

Steps to compress PDF via Python SDK

Aspose.PDF Cloud developers can easily load & optimize PDF in just a few lines of code.

  1. Install Python SDK
  2. Define Config Class
  3. Initialize the PDF API Client
  4. Upload the PDF Document with upload_document method
  5. Compress the PDF Document using compress_pdf_document method (in this example we compress images and reduce their quality, you can set other params if need it). Checks the Documentation Pages, if you need details.
  6. Send compression request via post_optimize_document().
  7. Download the Resulting PDF
 

Compress PDF using Python


    import shutil
    import json
    import logging
    from pathlib import Path
    from asposepdfcloud import ApiClient, PdfApi, OptimizeOptions

    # Configure logging
    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format="%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s")


    class Config:
        """Configuration parameters."""
        CREDENTIALS_FILE = Path(r"Credentials/credentials.json")
        LOCAL_FOLDER = Path(r"C:\Samples")
        TEMP_FOLDER = 'TempPdfCloud'
        PDF_DOCUMENT_NAME = "sample.pdf"
        LOCAL_RESULT_DOCUMENT_NAME = "output_sample.pdf"

    class PdfCompress:
        """Class for compress PDF links using Aspose PDF Cloud API."""
        def __init__(self, credentials_file: Path = Config.CREDENTIALS_FILE):
            self.pdf_api = None
            self._init_api(credentials_file)

        def _init_api(self, credentials_file: Path):
            """Initialize the API client."""
            try:
                with credentials_file.open("r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
                    credentials = json.load(file)
                    api_key, app_id = credentials.get("key"), credentials.get("id")
                    if not api_key or not app_id:
                        raise ValueError("init_api(): Error: Missing API keys in the credentials file.")
                    self.pdf_api = PdfApi(ApiClient(api_key, app_id))
            except (FileNotFoundError, json.JSONDecodeError, ValueError) as e:
                logging.error(f"init_api(): Failed to load credentials: {e}")

        def upload_document(self):
            """Upload a PDF document to the Aspose Cloud server."""
            if self.pdf_api:
                file_path = Config.LOCAL_FOLDER / Config.PDF_DOCUMENT_NAME
                stotage_path = Config.TEMP_FOLDER + '/' + Config.PDF_DOCUMENT_NAME
                try:
                    self.pdf_api.upload_file(stotage_path, str(file_path))
                    logging.info(f"upload_document(): File {Config.PDF_DOCUMENT_NAME} uploaded successfully.")
                except Exception as e:
                    logging.error(f"upload_document(): Failed to upload file: {e}")

        def download_result(self):
            """Download the processed PDF document from the Aspose Cloud server."""
            if self.pdf_api:
                try:
                    temp_file = self.pdf_api.download_file(Config.TEMP_FOLDER + '/' + Config.PDF_DOCUMENT_NAME)
                    local_path = Config.LOCAL_FOLDER / Config.LOCAL_RESULT_DOCUMENT_NAME
                    shutil.move(temp_file, str(local_path))
                    logging.info(f"download_result(): File successfully downloaded: {local_path}")
                except Exception as e:
                    logging.error(f"download_result(): Failed to download file: {e}")

        def compress_pdf_document(self):
            """Compress the PDF document."""
            if self.pdf_api:
                optimize_options = OptimizeOptions(
                    allow_reuse_page_content=False,
                    compress_images=True,
                    image_quality=75,
                    link_duplcate_streams=False,
                    remove_unused_objects=False,
                    remove_unused_streams=False,            
                    unembed_fonts=False
                )        
            opts = {
                "options" : optimize_options,
                "folder" : Config.TEMP_FOLDER
            }
            try:
                response = self.pdf_api.post_optimize_document(Config.PDF_DOCUMENT_NAME, **opts)

                if response.code == 200:
                    logging.info(f"compress_pdf_document(): PDF document '{Config.PDF_DOCUMENT_NAME}' successfully compressed.")
                else:
                    logging.error(f"compress_pdf_document(): Failed to compress document. Response code: {response.code}")
            except Exception as e:
                logging.error(f"compress_pdf_document(): Error while compress document: {e}")


    if __name__ == "__main__":
        pdf_compress = PdfCompress()
        pdf_compress.upload_document()
        pdf_compress.compress_pdf_document()
        pdf_compress.download_result()
 

With our Python library you can:

Compress PDF documents with Aspose.PDF Cloud Python SDK.

  • Combine PDF documents.
  • Split PDF Files.
  • Convert PDF to other formats, and vice versa.
  • Manipulate Annotations.
  • Work with Images in PDF, etc.
  • You can try out our free App to test the functionality online.