PDFGEARS

A collection of Python tools for working with PDF files.

Distributed on PyPI as pdfgears; the importable package is pdfgears.

Installation

pip install pdfgears

Features

• rmbmk: Remove PDF bookmarks (outline entries) whose title consists only of Arabic numerals (e.g. "1", "2.", "10"), while preserving the links/destinations of the remaining bookmarks.

Usage

Command-line

# List all available commands
pdfgears-info

# Remove numeric-only bookmarks, overwriting the input (keeps a .bak backup)
rmbmk input.pdf

# Remove numeric-only bookmarks, writing to a new file
rmbmk input.pdf -o output.pdf

# Process every PDF matched by the shell glob
rmbmk *.pdf

Python API

from pdfgears import rmbmk

# Remove numeric-only bookmarks from a PDF
rmbmk.remove_numeric_bookmarks("input.pdf", output_path="output.pdf")

Notes

• rmbmk automatically creates a .bak backup of the original file whenever it overwrites it in place (i.e. when -o/--output is omitted).
• -o/--output can only be used with a single -i input file.