qpdf
Command-line tool for content-preserving PDF transformations.
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Package managers
- Homebrew
brew install qpdf
About qpdf
qpdf inspects and rewrites the structure of PDF files without changing their visible content, handling linearisation, encryption and decryption, splitting, merging, JSON output of the document structure and repair of damaged files. It does not render pages or extract text.
Strengths
- Rewrites PDF structure losslessly, which makes it ideal in pipelines
- Can dump and rebuild a PDF as JSON for scripted editing
Limitations
- No rendering or text extraction; those need other tools
- Command line only
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the Apache licence.
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Developer
- Jay Berkenbilt
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Command-line tool for content-preserving PDF transformations
- Categories
- PDF tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus Resource Hub (PDF & Documents); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 3 sources on file.