Copy Protected PDFs and PIL

[MRAB]

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.