Interest in a GUI front-end for PyPDF2?

[teschmitt]

Hey everybody, I've started developing a GUI front-end for PyPDF2 that tries to clone the excellent PDFTK Builder. PDFTK Builder only runs on Windows, my goal is to make it a cross-platform effort and eventually ship it via pyInstaller or the like.

Right now only merging of PDFs is implemented, but I'm planning to mirror all features of the original using PyPDF2. So far, I'm optimistic!

Is there any interest in the community for a project like this? Any comments or ideas? PRs?

EDIT: I should maybe leave a link to the repo here: https://github.com/mrgnth/PyPDF-Builder

[MartinThoma]

Would you like to move that to the py-pdf organization?

[teschmitt]

Sure, I'd be happy to! I have to admit I created this project when I was first starting out with Python and programming in general. I haven't looked at the code in ages so I assume there are major issues to be found (missing features & no testing, for starters) but I see PyPDF2 is making a miraculous comeback and I'd love to contribute.

[teschmitt]

I'm absolutely ok with all of that. As for me: I'll pull in all security updates first and then transfer the repo. I just skimmed over the code … it wasn't as embarrassing as I had expected of my 4 years younger self. I'll see how much work I can put into it now that there is a more substantial effort on the backing library.

Fun fact: My original issue to the PyPDF2 repo announcing my GUI project is exactly 4 years old today 😄

[teschmitt]

I can't seem to move the repo yet, there seems to be a permissions problem:

You don’t have the permission to create public repositories on py-pdf

[MartinThoma]

@teschmitt I've invited you to the py-pdf organization. Now you should be able to transfer the repository to it: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/transferring-a-repository

You can also transfer it to me and I will transfer it to py-pdf

[MartinThoma]

@teschmitt Did you try it again?

[teschmitt]

@MartinThoma Sorry, I thought I'd replied to this but I didn't. As you probably have already noticed, I've moved the repo successfully. Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you ever feel like talking about the further development path. If there is more interest in further development, I could manage to move it up a few notches on my priorities.

[johns1c]

Sounds a good idea - PDF split and merge used to be free but the latest releases are quite expensive so a free equivalent would be quite useful.

[teschmitt]

Hi, the PyPDF Builder project has been moved to the py-pdf organization and can be found here: https://github.com/py-pdf/PyPDF-Builder

Most of the basic functionality is implemented but the last two years of development have been comprised mostly of changes to requirements.txt to keep the GitHub dependabot happy.

Let me know if the tool is useful to you and if you have any ideas about further development.