On 11/11/2010 20:28, Brett Bowman wrote:
I'm trying to parse some basic details and a thumbnail from ~12,000 PDFs
for my company, but a few hundred of them are copy protected. To make
matters worse, I can't seem to trap the error it causes: whenever it
happens PIL throws a "FATAL PDF disallows copying" message and dies. An
automated way to snap a picture of the PDFs would be ideal, but I'd
settle for a way to skip over them without crashing my program.
Any tips?
You could try it in a worker thread; it might kill only the worker.
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