This course will walk you through the most common scenarios for manipulating PDF Files using the Python programming language.

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pdf_xmp_metadata

pdf_compute_checksum

pdf_merger

pdf_pages_splitter

pdf_pages_rotator

pdf_pages_remover

pdf_pages_shuffler

pdf_pages_watermarker

pdf_convert2img

pdf_extract_tables

pdf_extract_images

pdf_extract_links

pdf_annotator

pdf_redactor

pdf_parser

pdf_convert2docx

pdf_convert2pptx

pdf_compress

pdf_secure

pdf_crack

pdf_create

pdf_sign

pdf_scan

pdf_comment

pdf_compare_files

pdf_attach

pdf_extract_attachments

pdf_embed_js

pdf_change_rights

This course will provide you with hands-on experience in PDF manipulation using the Python programming language. It integrates the most common real-life scenarios into its proceedings and supplies you with a framework of "how to do it". 

This course is addressed to Python programmers who seek to broaden their knowledge in the Python programming language. Moreover, it targets those who are eager to gain in-depth experience in handling and processing PDF files which constitute a large part of our day-to-day lives.

PDF Management in Python

## Introduction ##

By definition, a **hyperlink**, or more simply a link, is a reference to information that the user can access by clicking or tapping.

Hyperlinks help in organizing a document and enhancing its content with outside resources.

Adding hyperlinks to a PDF document gives its readers instant access to data that is either located within the same document, in another document, or a website without the need to duplicate such data.

Quickly scanning a PDF document and grabbing the links included within it is a common user query, mainly used to check the status of these links and to see whether they are working, broken, or malformed.

## How links are stored in a PDF file ##

A link is generally represented in a PDF document cross-reference table using a *"Link"* tag and objects inside its sub-tree. These objects consist of a **link object reference**, or link annotation, and one or more text objects. The text object or objects within the "Link" tag are used to provide a name for the link.

The following figure shows a link included within the cross-reference table of a sample PDF file:


# Introduction ##

By definition, a **hyperlink**, or more simply a link, is a reference to information that the user can access by clicking or tapping.

Hyperlinks help in organizing a document and enhancing its content with outside resources.

Adding hyperlinks to a PDF document gives its readers instant access to data that is either located within the same document, in another document, or a website without the need to duplicate such data.

Quickly scanning a PDF document and grabbing the links included within it is a common user query, mainly used to check the status of these links and to see whether they are working, broken, or malformed.

# How links are stored in a PDF file ##

A link is generally represented in a PDF document cross-reference table using a *"Link"* tag and objects inside its sub-tree. These objects consist of a **link object reference**, or link annotation, and one or more text objects. The text object or objects within the "Link" tag are used to provide a name for the link.

The following figure shows a link included within the cross-reference table of a sample PDF file:


Learn to develop a PDF link extractor tool while benefiting from the PikePdf Python library.

How to Extract Hyperlinks from a PDF

Introduction

PDF Management Core Functions

Pages Processing

Content Processing

Document Processing

Conclusion

Appendices

How to Extract Hyperlinks from a PDF

Introduction

How links are stored in a PDF file