How to render PDF using poppler in pyqt4 or wxpython?

Question

My goal is to create a pdf viewer that can select a text in the viewer.

is it possible? i'm only experienced using wxpython for deleveloping gui application. I just heard poppler can support rendering pdf, but i did not found any snippet or example. please help.

Answer 1

If you are looking for how to create a wxPython PDF viewer, I've found a couple of examples. The first one uses Poppler as you mentioned in conjunction with wxPython:

• http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577195-wxpython-pdf-viewer-using-poppler/

It's a pretty old example, so I don't know how well it works now. The other one I found uses PyMuPDF and fitz and was published this year (2016):

• http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580621-wxpython-pdf-viewer-using-pymupdf-binding-for-fitz/

If you happen to be on Windows, wxPython comes with an ActiveX wrapper around Adobe's reader. You can read more about it here:

• https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/docs/html/wx.lib.pdfviewer.viewer.pdfViewer.html