PDFLinkCheck

PDFLinkCheck validates hyperlinks and navigation destinations inside PDF documents. It is available as a Python library, command-line tool, and desktop GUI.

Metadata

Type: Python library + CLI + GUI

Primary purpose: Validate hyperlinks and navigation inside PDF documents.

Input: PDF files

Output: Link validation reports, in JSON, XLSX, and TXT.

Platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS

Python: 3.9+

Features

PDFLinkCheck analyzes PDF files for:

  • External web links (http, https)
  • Internal PDF destinations (GoTo)
  • External PDF destinations (GoToR)
  • Broken and unresolved references
  • Link inventory and reporting

Designed for documentation QA, publishing pipelines, engineering document control, and automated validation.

Install

CLI application:

pipx install "pdflinkcheck[pdfium]"

Python library:

pip install "pdflinkcheck[pdfium]"

Quick Start

GUI

pdflinkcheck gui

CLI

pdflinkcheck analyze document.pdf

Web App

pdflinkcheck --debug serve

Library usage

import pdflinkcheck

# Script pdf analysis and export handling ...

Documentation

Documentation:

https://city-of-memphis-wastewater.github.io/pdflinkcheck/

CLI

pdflinkcheck helptree

SVG of the pdflinkcheck CLI helptree

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License

MIT

Project links

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Newer release available (1.5.16)

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Credits

Author/Maintainer: George Clayton Bennett

GitHub Statistics

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License expression

MIT
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Requires

Python >=3.9

Provides Extra

pymupdf pdfium

Tags

pdf links analysis validation audit cli gui pymupdf pypdf pdfium document-processing

Classifiers

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