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I need to get a polygon comment into a pdf and revise it's shape. I'm able to do so now by merging the pdf and a blank pdf with just the polygon, then I am able to update the vertices and the rect. However, the polygon shape still looks the old one when opening the new pdf, even though it will be refreshed after a few clicks on the shape. I need to have this fixed and found this is probably caused by the data stream in the annotation object, which seems to still contain the old polygon shape. But I cannot figure out how to overwrite that before saving the new pdf. I used code similar below to

I'm trying to extract Text from a PDF using Python, and I have successfully done so using PyPDF2 like this: import PyPDF2 pdfFileObj = open('path', 'rb') pdfReader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdfFileObj) pageObj = pdfReader.getPage(0) pageObj.extractText() This extracts all the Text from the Page, but I want to extract the text only from a Rectangular region of 3'x4' at the top-left part of the page. I Basically want to do something like : How-to extract text from a pdf doc within a specific rectangular region? but in Python Can this be done by PyPDF2 or by any other Python Library? This is a

I want to add a metadata key-value pair to the metadata of a pdf file. I found a several years old answer, but I think this is way to complicated. I guess there is an easier way today: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3257340/633961 I am not married with pypdf2, if there is an easier way, then I go this way? Tarun Lalwani You can do that using pdfrw pip install pdfrw Then run from pdfrw import PdfReader, PdfWriter trailer = PdfReader("myfile.pdf") trailer.Info.WhoAmI = "Tarun Lalwani" PdfWriter("edited.pdf", trailer=trailer).write() And then check the PDF Custom Properties Cyril N. I was surprised