Simple helper utility to convert a video file to PDF image series

vid2pdf requires ffmpeg to be extracted to the /utils/ffmpeg folder. The latest version of ffmpeg can be downloaded from ffmpeg.org. Existing local ffmpeg installations are not currently supported.

Install from PyPi with your favorite pip invocation:

$ pip install vid2pdf

Alternatively, prebuilt binaries are provided at https://github.com/sco1/vid2pdf/releases

vid2pdf can be invoked using Python:

$ python vid2pdf.py

Or, if a prebuilt binary is present, this may be called directly

$ vid2pdf.exe

Unless otherwise noted, all input parameters are prompted in the CLI

The default behavior is to open a GUI dialog for the user to specify a the input video file. An optional -cli flag may be passed to bypass this GUI and instead prompt for the video file path in the CLI.

PDF output directory. If this value is not specified, this defaults to the parent directory of the input video.

Video start time for capture, as hh:mm:ss.sss. If this value is not specified, the beginning of the video is used.

Video end time for capture, as hh:mm:ss.sss. If this value is not specified, the end of the video is used.

$ python vid2pdf.py
Enter the output directory path [X:\vid2pdf\test]:
Enter start time (hh:mm:ss.sss). Leave blank to use the video start:
Enter end time (hh:mm:ss.sss). Leave blank to use the video end: 00:00:01.000
<ffmpeg output snipped>
Loading 30 frames...
100%|███████████████████████████████████████| 29/29 [00:00<00:00, 852.82it/s]
Generating PDF ... done

$ python vid2pdf.py -cli
Enter the video file path: X:\vid2pdf\test\test_video.mp4
Enter the output directory path [X:\vid2pdf\test]:
Enter start time (hh:mm:ss.sss). Leave blank to use the video start:
Enter end time (hh:mm:ss.sss). Leave blank to use the video end: 00:00:01.000
<ffmpeg output snipped>
Loading 30 frames...
100%|███████████████████████████████████████| 29/29 [00:00<00:00, 852.82it/s]
Generating PDF ... done