reader(fname): ifile = open(fname, "rb") idata = ifile.read() # put in memory ifile.close() ibuffer = BytesIO(idata) # convert to stream try: doc = fitz.open("pdf", idata) # open and save a corrected c = doc.write(garbage = 4) # version in memory doc.close() doc = idata = None # free

------------------- def reader(fname, password = None): idata = open(fname, "rb").read() # read the PDF into memory and ibuffer = BytesIO(idata) # convert to stream if password is None: try: return