PDFknife 2026.7.27.0

Command line tools to manipulate PDF files

PDFknife

A Swiss Army Knife sort of python scripts collection to manipulate PDFs. It relies on:

• pdfjam
• pdftk
• pdfunite (poppler)
• ghostscript
• mupdf-tools

Install

The project is available on pypi: https://pypi.org/project/PDFknife/

pip install PDFknife

Tools

• pdfknife-A5.py -- Turn a PDF in A5 format
• pdfknife-even.py -- Add blank page to odd pages PDF
• pdfknife-extract -- Extract images from PDF
• pdfknife-merge.py -- Merge PDFs
• pdfknife-recto.py -- Add blank page between each original page
• pdfknife-reverse.py -- Reverse page order
• pdfknife-shrink.py -- Compress a PDF
• pdfknife-split.py -- Make one page per file
• pdfknife-trim.py -- Change the margins

License

BSD3, See LICENCE file.