simple-pdf-cli 0.1.2

A simple CLI app for basic PDF modifications.

Simple PDF-CLI

Simple PDF-CLI is a simple CLI app to edit PDFs directly from the terminal. Current features:

• Merge multiple PDFs
• Convert PDF to images
• Combine images to a PDF
• Reorder pages of a PDF
• Trim pages of a PDF
• Split a PDF into multiple PDFs
• Encrypt a PDF
• Decrypt a PDF

Testing photos by Pavel Moiseev on Unsplash.

Usage Examples

Merge

pdfcli merge file1.pdf file2.pdf -o merged.pdf

Images to PDF

pdfcli image1.png image2.png image3.png -o output.pdf

PDF to Images

pdfcli file.pdf -o out_images

Reorder

pdfcli input.pdf -o output.pdf -r 3,1,2

Trim

pdfcli input.pdf -o output.pdf -p 1-5,7,10-12,9

Split

pdfcli split input.pdf -o out_pdfs -p 1-5,3-6,7

Encrypt

pdfcli encrypt file.pdf -o output.pdf -p password1

Decrypt

pdfcli decrypt file.pdf -o output.pdf -p password1

Installation

Using pip (recommended):

pip install simple-pdf-cli

Manual Installation

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/Falachi/simple-pdf-cli.git

2. Go to project directory

cd simple-pdf-cli

3. Install package

pip install -e .

To-Do List

• Implement proper type and error checking
• Compress PDF
• Split PDF
• Password protect
• Allow a .txt file as input for arguments that accept multiple files
• Edit PDF metadata
• Upload to PyPI
• Create a GUI version
• Etc.