Pages are the most fundamental components of a PDF document. If you want to add new information or supplemental material to an existing PDF, it is necessary to add new pages. Conversely, if there are some pages that contain incorrect or irrelevant content, you can remove them to create a more professional document. In this article, you will learn how to programmatically add or delete pages in PDF using Spire.PDF for Python.

• Add Empty Pages to a PDF Document in Python
• Delete an Existing Page in a PDF Document in Python

Install Spire.PDF for Python

This scenario requires Spire.PDF for Python and plum-dispatch v1.7.4. They can be easily installed in your Windows through the following pip command.

pip install Spire.PDF

If you are unsure how to install, please refer to this tutorial: How to Install Spire.PDF for Python on Windows

Add Empty Pages to a PDF Document in Python

With Spire.PDF for Python, you can easily add a blank page to a specific position or to the end of the document using PdfDocument.Pages.Insert() or PdfDocument.Pages.Add(SizeF, PdfMargins) methods. The following are the detailed steps.

• Create a PdfDocument object.
• Load a sample PDF document using PdfDocument.LoadFromFile() method.
• Create a new blank page and insert it into a specific position of the document using PdfDocument.Pages.Insert() method.
• Create another new blank page with the specified size and margins, and then append it to the end of the document using PdfDocument.Pages.Add(SizeF, PdfMargins) method.
• Save the result document using PdfDocument.SaveToFile() method.

from spire.pdf.common import *
from spire.pdf import *

# Create a PdfDocument object
pdf = PdfDocument()

# Load a PDF document
pdf.LoadFromFile("Test.pdf")

# Insert a blank page to the document as the second page
pdf.Pages.Insert(1)

# Add an empty page to the end of the document
pdf.Pages.Add(PdfPageSize.A4(), PdfMargins(0.0, 0.0))

# Save the result document
pdf.SaveToFile("AddPage.pdf")
pdf.Close()

Delete an Existing Page in a PDF Document in Python

To remove a specified page from a PDF, you can use the PdfDocument.Pages.RemoveAt() method. The following are the detailed steps.

• Create a PdfDocument object.
• Load a sample PDF document using PdfDocument.LoadFromFile() method.
• Remove a specified page from the document using PdfDocument.Pages.RemoveAt() method.
• Save the result document using PdfDocument.SaveToFile() method.

from spire.pdf.common import *
from spire.pdf import *

# Create a PdfDocument object
pdf = PdfDocument()

# Load a PDF document
pdf.LoadFromFile("Test.pdf")

# Delete the second page of the document
pdf.Pages.RemoveAt(1)

# Save the result document
pdf.SaveToFile("DeletePage.pdf")
pdf.Close()

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