PDFix SDK CLI App

PDFix SDK CLI App packaged for pip.

PDFix SDK is a cross-platform PDF processing toolkit for automating PDF accessibility, document remediation, data extraction, and PDF conversion workflows. The PDFix CLI App exposes those SDK capabilities as a command-line tool for shells, build pipelines, batch jobs, server-side automation, and Python applications.

This package installs the native PDFix CLI runtime for your platform and provides console scripts plus a small Python API for invoking the CLI.

What PDFix CLI App is for

Use PDFix CLI App when you need scriptable PDF automation without integrating directly with the PDFix SDK API. Common use cases include:

• Automated PDF accessibility remediation for PDF/UA and WCAG-oriented workflows
• Adding and improving tags, document structure, reading order, annotations, metadata, and fonts
• Extracting PDF content, forms, bookmarks, tags, page objects, tables, images, and document data to formats such as JSON, XML, CSV, text, and images
• Converting PDFs to HTML or structured data for web, archive, review, and downstream processing
• Rendering PDF pages to raster images for previews, validation, or QA
• Applying operations such as watermarking, flattening, redaction, page insert/delete/move, digital signatures, form import/export, and security removal
• Running batch processing and JSON-configured PDF Actions in production pipelines

Install

pip install pdfix-cli

Pip selects the matching platform wheel automatically (Windows x64, Linux x86_64 / aarch64, macOS Intel / Apple Silicon).

Console usage

After installation, any of these commands invoke the native PDFix CLI App:

pdfix-cli --version
pdfix --help
pdfix_app make-accessible input.pdf -o output.pdf

Arguments are forwarded unchanged to the native executable. Exit code, stdout, and stderr are preserved.

Python API

from pdfix_cli import (
  get_pdfix_cli_path,
  is_pdfix_cli_available,
  run_pdfix_cli,
)

if not is_pdfix_cli_available():
  raise RuntimeError("PDFix CLI runtime is not installed for this platform.")

print(get_pdfix_cli_path())

child = run_pdfix_cli(["--version"])
child.wait()

• get_pdfix_cli_path() — absolute path to the bundled pdfix_app executable
• is_pdfix_cli_available() — whether the runtime can be resolved
• run_pdfix_cli(args) — spawn the CLI (inherits stdio by default)

Supported platforms

Requires Python 3.8+.

Links

• Homepage: https://pdfix.net
• Releases / issues: https://github.com/pdfix/pdfix_sdk_builds
• License / terms: https://pdfix.net/terms

License

PDFix SDK Lite is licensed under Apache 2.0. Other versions of the PDFix SDK are licensed under the terms published at https://pdfix.net/terms.