PDF - extract several pages out of a large pdf using python

Sometimes you get a very long PDF and in the end, you want only a couple of pages out of it.

us the following code to grab these pages :

from PyPDF2 import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader,PdfFileMerger

inputpdf = PdfFileReader(open("/Downloads/הד מטות מסעי תשפ.pdf", "rb"))

for i in range(inputpdf.numPages):

output = PdfFileWriter()

output.addPage(inputpdf.getPage(i))

with open("/Users/allcloud/Documents/tmp/doc-page%s.pdf" % i, "ab") as outputStream:

output.write(outputStream)

merger = PdfFileMerger()

#taking pages 2-4

for i in range(2,5):

merger.append(PdfFileReader("/Documents/tmp/doc-page{}.pdf".format(i), 'rb'))

merger.write("/Documents/tmp/document-page_all.pdf")