Welcome to pdfly
pdfly (say: PDF-li) is a pure-python cli application for manipulating PDF files.
Repository: github.com/py-pdf/pdfly
Installation
pip install -U pdfly
As pdfly is an application, you might want to install it with pipx or uv tool.
Usage
$ pdfly --help
Usage: pdfly [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
pdfly is a pure-python cli application for manipulating PDF files.
╭─ Options ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --version │
│ --help Show this message and exit. │
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╭─ Commands ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ 2-up Create a booklet-style PDF from a single input. │
│ booklet Reorder and two-up PDF pages for booklet printing. │
│ cat Concatenate pages from PDF files into a single PDF file. │
│ check-sign Verifies the signature of a signed PDF. │
│ compress Compress a PDF. │
│ extract-annotated-pages Extract only the annotated pages from a PDF. │
│ extract-images Extract images from PDF without resampling or altering. │
│ extract-text Extract text from a PDF file. │
│ meta Show metadata of a PDF file │
│ pagemeta Give details about a single page. │
│ rm Remove pages from PDF files. │
│ rotate Rotate specified pages by the specified amount │
│ sign Creates a signed PDF from an existing PDF file. │
│ uncompress Module for uncompressing PDF content streams. │
│ update-offsets Updates offsets and lengths in a simple PDF file. │
│ x2pdf Convert one or more files to PDF. Each file is a page. │
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You can see the help of every subcommand by typing --help:
$ pdfly 2-up --help
Usage: pdfly 2-up [OPTIONS] PDF OUT
Create a booklet-style PDF from a single input.
Pairs of two pages will be put on one page (left and right)
usage: python 2-up.py input_file output_file
╭─ Arguments ───────────────────────────────────────╮
│ * pdf PATH [default: None] [required] │
│ * out PATH [default: None] [required] │
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╭─ Options ─────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --help Show this message and exit. │
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Note
pdfly has nothing to do with pdfly.net or gopdfly.com
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