On 2010-11-11 14:28 , Brett Bowman wrote:
I'm trying to parse some basic details and a thumbnail from ~12,000 PDFs for my
company, but a few hundred of them are copy protected. To make matters worse, I
can't seem to trap the error it causes: whenever it happens PIL throws a "FATAL
PDF disallows copying" message and dies. An automated way to snap a picture of
the PDFs would be ideal, but I'd settle for a way to skip over them without
crashing my program.
Any tips?
I don't think PIL reads PDF files at all. Are you sure that the error comes from
PIL and not some other piece of software? I would be very surprised if PIL
simply crashed with such an error message. That is not a situation where a
well-behaved Python library like PIL would abort without a catchable traceback.
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an underlying truth."
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