Extract the first page of PDF files in the current directory and combine them into a single PDF.

PDFFirstPages.py

# requires: pip install pyPDF2
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter
import os

# prepare output writer
pdfWriter = PdfFileWriter()

# loop reading the first page of each files
for aFileName in [fname for fname in os.listdir(".") if ".pdf" in fname]:
	pdfReader = PdfFileReader(open(aFileName, "rb"))
	firstPage = pdfReader.getPage(0)
	pdfWriter.addPage(firstPage)

# save target PDF file
fOut = open("FirstPages.pdf", "wb") 
pdfWriter.write(fOut)
fOut.close()