A command line utility for easily modifying PDF files
Project description
Simple command line PDF editor
pdfriend
is a simple command line program for editing PDF files at the page level. It can, among other things:
- merge many PDFs, PNGs and JPGs into a single PDF
- split a PDF into different parts
- exctract images from PDFs
- select pages from a PDF
- rotate PDF pages
- delete PDF pages
- change the order of pages in a PDF
- encrypt and decrypt PDFs
- see and edit PDF metadata
Installation
The recommended way to install pdfriend
is through pipx. Simply run:
pipx install pdfriend
You need a working python 3.11 or newer installation.
Alternatively, you can install it as you would any other PyPI package, for example using pip:
pip install pdfriend
Usage
To access instructions for the usage of pdfriend
:
pdfriend help
As a quick overview:
Merging PDFs and images
PDFs:
pdfriend merge doc0.pdf doc1.pdf -o output.pdf
Images:
pdfriend merge img0.png img1.jpg img2.png img3.png -o output.pdf
PDFs and images:
pdfriend merge doc0.pdf img0.png doc32.pdf -o comb.pdf
Glob patterns are also supported:
pdfriend merge input_dir/*.png -o output.pdf
Editing PDFs
To edit a PDF file in place, enter the edit shell:
pdfriend edit doc.pdf
You can then use the edit subcommands, for example
rotate 12 90
To rotate page 12 by 90 degrees, or
delete 6
To delete page 6, or
swap 3 7
To swap pages 3 and 7, or
undo
To undo the previous command, etc. Use
pdfriend encrypt sus.pdf -o sus-encrypted.pdf
to encrypt the PDF with a password. Use
pdfriend invert wrong.pdf -o right.pdf
to invert the order of the pages in a PDF. Use
help
To see all the available subcommands
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