Copy Protected PDFs and PIL

[Emile van Sebille]

On 11/11/2010 12:28 PM Brett Bowman said...
> 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?


try / except around the relevant code?

Emile