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A command-line tool for extracting information from PDFs and manipulating PDF files. Notes say what changes if you switch.
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pdfly
A command-line tool for extracting information from PDFs and manipulating PDF files.
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Xpdf
A PDF viewer plus command-line tools for extracting text and images and converting PDFs to HTML.
pdfcpu
Go library and command line for validating and transforming PDFs.
pdfcpu validates and transforms PDFs through a Go library and command-line tool, while pdfly focuses on extracting information and manipulating files.
mutool (MuPDF)
Command-line companion to MuPDF for PDF extraction, cleaning and merging.
mutool extracts, cleans and merges PDFs from the command line, while pdfly describes broader information extraction and PDF manipulation.
Ghostscript
PostScript and PDF interpreter behind a great deal of other software.
qpdf
Command-line tool for content-preserving PDF transformations.
qpdf is a cross-platform command-line tool for content-preserving PDF transformations; pdfly also extracts PDF information and manipulates files.
Poppler
PDF rendering library with pdftotext, pdftoppm and pdfinfo tools.
Cpdf
Command-line PDF toolkit covering split, merge, stamp and encrypt.
Cpdf provides command-line tools to split, merge, stamp and encrypt PDFs, while pdfly focuses on extracting information and manipulating files.
iText RUPS
A PDF diagnostic tool for inspecting and updating document syntax, objects, and content streams.
