Iterating over pages in ami_pdf

[petermr]

development of iterator over PDF pages

input

in test/test_pdf .py

Note the --pages flag

    @unittest.skipUnless("command", CMD)
    def test_convert_to_raw_html_chap6_page_ranges(self):
        """
        converts complete chapter to raw HTML.
        outputs each page as
        .../pyami/temp/ipcc_chap6/fulltext.flow_5.html
        and also concatenates into .../pyami/temp/ipcc_chap6/flow.test.html
        If --pages is used then only output specific pages
        """
        args = f"PDF --infile {IPCC_CHAP6_PDF} --pages _2 5_7 9 11_15 217_ --offset 0 --outdir {Resources.IPCC_TEMP_CHAP06}"
        ami = PyAMI()
        ami.run_command(args)

Output

PASSED  [100%] COMMAND: PDF {'version': False, 'apply': None, 'assert': None, 'combine': None, 'config': None, 'copy': None, 'debug': None, 'delete': None, 'dict': None, 'examples': None, 'filter': None, 'flags': None, 'glob': None, 'languages': 'en', 'loglevel': 'info', 'maxbars': 25, 'nosearch': False, 'outfile': None, 'patt': None, 'plot': True, 'proj': None, 'sect': None, 'split': None, 'command': 'PDF', 'flow': True, 'footer': 80, 'header': 80, 'imagedir': None, 'indir': None, 'inform': None, 'inpath': None, 'infile': '/Users/pm286/workspace/pyami/test/resources/ipcc/Chapter06/fulltext.pdf', 'instem': None, 'maxpage': 5, 'offset': '0', 'outdir': '/Users/pm286/workspace/pyami/temp/ipcc_chap6', 'outpath': None, 'outstem': 'fulltext.flow', 'outform': 'html', 'pdf2html': 'pdfminer', 'pages': ['_2', '5_7', '9', '11_15', '217_'], 'resolution': 400, 'template': None}
 wrote html /Users/pm286/workspace/pyami/temp/ipcc_chap6/fulltext.flow_1.html
 wrote html /Users/pm286/workspace/pyami/temp/ipcc_chap6/fulltext.flow_2.html
 wrote html /Users/pm286/workspace/pyami/temp/ipcc_chap6/fulltext.flow_5.html
 wrote html /Users/pm286/workspace/pyami/temp/ipcc_chap6/fulltext.flow_6.html
 wrote html /Users/pm286/workspace/pyami/temp/ipcc_chap6/fulltext.flow_7.html
 wrote html /Users/pm286/workspace/pyami/temp/ipcc_chap6/fulltext.flow_9.html
 wrote html /Users/pm286/workspace/pyami/temp/ipcc_chap6/fulltext.flow_11.html
 wrote html /Users/pm286/workspace/pyami/temp/ipcc_chap6/fulltext.flow_12.html
 wrote html /Users/pm286/workspace/pyami/temp/ipcc_chap6/fulltext.flow_13.html
 wrote html /Users/pm286/workspace/pyami/temp/ipcc_chap6/fulltext.flow_14.html
 wrote html /Users/pm286/workspace/pyami/temp/ipcc_chap6/fulltext.flow_15.html
 wrote html /Users/pm286/workspace/pyami/temp/ipcc_chap6/fulltext.flow_217.html
 wrote html /Users/pm286/workspace/pyami/temp/ipcc_chap6/fulltext.flow_218.html
 wrote html /Users/pm286/workspace/pyami/temp/ipcc_chap6/fulltext.flow_219.html

Explanation:

• _2 expands to 1_2 and to 1,2
• '5_7' expands to 5,6,7
• '9' expands to 9
• '11_15' expands to 11,12,13,14,15
• '217_' expands to 217_end to 217, 218 ... end

[petermr]

This will be better in a structured file such as XML (Not yet implemented)

<snippets>
  <pages start="3" end="5" file="exec_summary.html"/>
  <pages start="2" end="2" file="toc.html"/>
</snippets>