pycpdflib

pycpdflib is a Python interface to the cpdf pdf tools. More information, including commercial licenses can be found at https://www.coherentpdf.com/

The non-commercial home of pycpdf is http://community.coherentpdf.com/

Functionality

• Quality Split and Merge, keeping bookmarks. Extract pages. Split on Bookmarks.
• Encrypt and Decrypt (including AES 128 and AES 256 encryption)
• Scale, rotate, crop and flip pages. Scale pages to fit
• Copy, Remove and Add bookmarks
• Stamp logos, watermarks, page numbers and multiline text. Transparency.
• Supports Unicode UTF8 text input and output
• Put multiple pages on a single page
• List, copy, or remove annotations
• Read and set document information and metadata
• Add and remove file attachments to document or page.
• Thicken hairlines, blacken text, make draft documents
• Reconstruct malformed files
• Detect missing fonts, low resolution images

Obtaining the DLLs

The DLLs pycpdflib and cpdflib are required. They are free for non-commercial use. Commercial use requires a license. The DLLs can be obtained here:

https://github.com/coherentgraphics/cpdflib-binary

Documentation

Full manual (required reading): https://coherentpdf.com/pycpdflibmanual.pdf

Follow the instructions at the end of Chapter 1 to load the DLLs and write your first pycpdf program.

Quick reference API docs: https://python-libcpdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Contact

mailto:contact@coherentgraphics.co.uk

Bug report: https://github.com/coherentgraphics/python-libcpdf