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Pypi latest version Python Support License: BSD 3 Clause Documentation Status

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pdfly

pdfly (say: PDF-li) is a pure-python cli application for manipulating PDF files.

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Installation

pip install -U pdfly

As pdfly is an application, you might want to install it with pipx or uv tool: uvx pdfly --help

Usage

$ pdfly --help  Usage: pdfly [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...  pdfly is a pure-python cli application for manipulating PDF files. ╭─ Options ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ │ --version │ │ --help Show this message and exit. │ ╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ ╭─ Commands ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ │ 2-up Create a booklet-style PDF from a single input. │ │ booklet Reorder and two-up PDF pages for booklet printing. │ │ cat Extract and concatenate pages from PDF files into a single PDF file. │ │ check-sign Verifies the signature of a signed PDF. │ │ compress Compress a PDF. │ │ extract-annotated-pages Extract only the annotated pages from a PDF. │ │ extract-images Extract images from PDF without resampling or altering. │ │ extract-text Extract text from a PDF file. │ │ meta Show metadata of a PDF file │ │ pagemeta Give details about a single page. │ │ rm Remove pages from PDF files. │ │ rotate Rotate specified pages by the specified amount │ │ sign Creates a signed PDF from an existing PDF file. │ │ uncompress Module for uncompressing PDF content streams. │ │ update-offsets Updates offsets and lengths in a simple PDF file. │ │ x2pdf Convert one or more files to PDF. Each file is a page. │ ╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

You can see the help of every subcommand by typing --help:

$ pdfly 2-up --help  Usage: pdfly 2-up [OPTIONS] PDF OUT  Create a booklet-style PDF from a single input.  Pairs of two pages will be put on one page (left and right)  usage: python 2-up.py input_file output_file ╭─ Arguments ───────────────────────────────────────╮ │ * pdf PATH [default: None] [required] │ │ * out PATH [default: None] [required] │ ╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ ╭─ Options ─────────────────────────────────────────╮ │ --help Show this message and exit. │ ╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Note: pdfly has nothing to do with pdfly.net or gopdfly.com

Contributors ✨

pdfly is a free software project without any company affiliation. We cannot pay contributors, but we do value their contributions 🤗

Martin Thoma
Martin Thoma

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Lucas Cimon
Lucas Cimon

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Rob Adams
Rob Adams

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Harsh
Harsh

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Sascha Rogmann
Sascha Rogmann

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Enrique Botía
Enrique Botía

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kommade
kommade

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Zingzy
Zingzy

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Subhajit Sahu
Subhajit Sahu

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Kian-Meng Ang
Kian-Meng Ang

🤔
Hal Wine
Hal Wine

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philippesamuel
philippesamuel

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marcobrb
marcobrb

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moormaster
moormaster

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Geoff Beier
Geoff Beier

💻
Yuriy Chernyshov
Yuriy Chernyshov

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lkintact
lkintact

🐛

This project follows the all-contributors specification (emoji key). Contributions of any kind welcome!

The list might not be complete. You can find more contributors via the git history and GitHubs 'Contributors' feature.