Creating PDFDoc with remote file

[mason]

Product: PDFTron SDK for Python

Product Version: PDFNetPython3==9.1.0

Please give a brief summary of your issue:

I have a situation where the file I would like to create a new PDFDoc from is not on the server where the script lives. I have access to the file to read it into a buffer but am having some difficulty as I continue to receive the error:

TypeError: Wrong number or type of arguments for overloaded function ‘new_PDFDoc’.
Possible C/C++ prototypes are:
pdftron::PDF::PDFDoc::PDFDoc()
pdftron::PDF::PDFDoc::PDFDoc(pdftron::SDF::SDFDoc &)
pdftron::PDF::PDFDoc::PDFDoc(pdftron::PDF::PDFDoc const &)
pdftron::PDF::PDFDoc::PDFDoc(pdftron::UString const &)
pdftron::PDF::PDFDoc::PDFDoc(char const *)
pdftron::PDF::PDFDoc::PDFDoc(pdftron::Filters::Filter)
pdftron::PDF::PDFDoc::PDFDoc(pdftron::UChar const *,size_t)
pdftron::PDF::PDFDoc::PDFDoc(TRN_PDFDoc)

How can I go about creating a PDFDoc object from a buffer, without the need to create a temporary copy of it where this script is running?

[system]

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[JoeHecht]

The following post shows how to get a byte array from a PDF file, then open the PDF from the byte array, using PDFDoc(pdftron::UChar const *,size_t):

Can I Create a PDFDoc in Python Using the File Object Directly?

Question: Can I Create a PDFDoc in Python Using the File Object Directly? Answer: Unfortunately, you cannot pass a file object directly, but you should be able to pass a bytearray data from a file object. The code snippet below shows you how to do this: For Python 2.7.x with open(‘myfile.pdf’, ‘rb’) as in_file: contents = bytearray(in_file.read()) doc = PDFDoc(contents, len(contents)) page_count = doc.GetPageCount() doc.Close()