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Created January 31, 2017 16:07
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  1. Geekfish created this gist Jan 31, 2017.
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    from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter
    from PyPDF2.pdf import PageObject


    reader = PdfFileReader(open("invoice.pdf",'rb'))
    invoice_page = reader.getPage(0)
    sup_reader = PdfFileReader(open("supplement.pdf",'rb'))
    sup_page = sup_reader.getPage(1) # We pick the second page here

    translated_page = PageObject.createBlankPage(None, sup_page.mediaBox.getWidth(), sup_page.mediaBox.getHeight())
    translated_page.mergeScaledTranslatedPage(sup_page, 1, 0, -400) # -400 is approximate mid-page

    translated_page.mergePage(invoice_page)

    writer = PdfFileWriter()
    writer.addPage(translated_page)

    with open('out.pdf', 'wb') as f:
    writer.write(f)