pdfly 0.5.1
A pure-python CLI application to manipulate PDF files
Requires Python: >=3.10.0

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# pdfly

pdfly (say: PDF-li) is a pure-python cli application for manipulating PDF files.

<img src="docs/pdfly-logo.png" alt="pdfly logo" width="25%">

## Installation

```bash
pip install -U pdfly
```

As `pdfly` is an application, you might want to install it with [`pipx`](https://pypi.org/project/pipx/) or [`uv tool`](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/tools/)

## Usage

```console
$ 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.                                        │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ 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.      │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
```

You can see the help of every subcommand by typing `--help`:

```console
$ 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]    │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Options ─────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --help          Show this message and exit.       │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
```

**Note:** `pdfly` has nothing to do with ``pdfly.net`` or ``gopdfly.com``

## Contributors ✨

pdfly is a free software project without any company affiliation. We cannot pay
contributors, but we do value their contributions 🤗

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