pdfriend 0.8.1

A command line utility for easily modifying PDF files

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