pdf-compressor 0.1.4

CLI + Python API for batch compressing PDFs with iLovePDF.com

The code in ilovepdf.py was inspired by Andrea Bruschi's pylovepdf.

Command line PDF compression powered by the free iLovePDF API.

Installation

pip install pdf-compressor

Usage

Tell pdf-compressor your iLovePDF API key (if you haven't yet, get one by signing up at https://developer.ilovepdf.com/signup):

pdf-compressor --set-api-key project_public_7c854a9db0...

Then start compressing!

pdf-compressor **/*.pdf

Options

pdf-compressor has the following flags:

• -i/--inplace (optional, default: False): Whether to compress PDFs in place.
• -s/--suffix (optional, default: '-compressed'): String to append to the filename of compressed PDFs. Mutually exclusive with --inplace.
• --cl/--compression-level (optional, default: 'recommended'): How hard to squeeze the file size. 'extreme' noticeably degrades quality of embedded bitmap images.
• --set-api-key (optional): Set the public key needed to authenticate with the iLovePDF API. You only need to do this once to start using.
• --report-quota (optional): Report the number of remaining file operations in the current billing cycle for the stored iLovePDF public API key.
• --debug (optional, default: False): When true, iLovePDF won't process the request but only reports the parameters that would have been sent to the server.
• -v/--version (optional): Get your version number of pdf-compressor.