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PDF swiss-army knife. Merge multiple PDFs, split into pages or page ranges, rotate, extract specific pages, encrypt with password, decrypt (if you have the password), compress (via ghostscript when available), and extract text. One CLI with subcommands — `merge`, `split`, `rotate`, `extract`, `lock`, `unlock`, `compress`, `text`. Pure pypdf for most ops. Use when the user asks to "merge PDFs", "split a PDF", "extract pages", "lock a PDF with a password", "compress this PDF", or has any PDF manipulation task.

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pdf-tools

PDF swiss-army knife. One CLI, lots of subcommands. Built on pypdf (auto-installed on first run). Optional ghostscript (gs) for high-quality compression on macOS (brew install ghostscript).

Install / first run

The script auto-installs pypdf into the user site on first run. No manual setup.

Subcommands

All commands run via python3 scripts/pdf.py <subcommand> [args].

merge — combine multiple PDFs into one

python3 scripts/pdf.py merge --inputs a.pdf b.pdf c.pdf --output combined.pdf

split — explode a PDF into one file per page

Writes zero-padded names (page_001.pdf, page_002.pdf, ...) into the output dir.

python3 scripts/pdf.py split --input book.pdf --output-dir pages/

rotate — rotate specific pages by 90/180/270 degrees

python3 scripts/pdf.py rotate --input doc.pdf --pages 1,3-5 --degrees 90 --output out.pdf

extract — pull specific pages into a new PDF

python3 scripts/pdf.py extract --input doc.pdf --pages 2-5 --output excerpt.pdf

lock — encrypt a PDF with a password

python3 scripts/pdf.py lock --input doc.pdf --password hunter2 --output secured.pdf

unlock — remove the password from a PDF (you must know it)

python3 scripts/pdf.py unlock --input secured.pdf --password hunter2 --output open.pdf

compress — shrink a PDF

Uses ghostscript if installed (much better quality/size). Falls back to pypdf stream compression. Quality presets: screen (smallest), ebook (medium, default), printer, prepress (largest, best).

python3 scripts/pdf.py compress --input big.pdf --output small.pdf --quality ebook

text — extract all text from a PDF

python3 scripts/pdf.py text --input doc.pdf --output doc.txt

Page-range syntax

Anywhere --pages is accepted, the format is comma-separated 1-indexed pages and ranges:

  • 1 — page 1
  • 1,3,5 — pages 1, 3, 5
  • 2-5 — pages 2 through 5
  • 1,3-5,8 — pages 1, 3, 4, 5, 8

Notes

  • Pages in CLI are 1-indexed (human-friendly). The script converts to 0-indexed pypdf internally.
  • compress will auto-detect gs on PATH; if missing, it falls back silently to pypdf compression.
  • unlock requires the correct password — there is no cracking. If you don't know it, you don't get in.

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VERSIONS

  • 0.1.0 — 4.5 KB — 2d3c521c53d8

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