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pdflyqpdf
Free

Free software under the BSD 3-Clause license.

 Free

Free and open source under the Apache licence.

Command line Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
  • Includes commands for PDF extraction, editing and conversion
  • Can create booklet layouts and verify signed PDFs
  • Rewrites PDF structure losslessly, which makes it ideal in pipelines
  • Can dump and rebuild a PDF as JSON for scripted editing
  • Command-line interface requires comfort with terminal commands
  • No rendering or text extraction; those need other tools
  • Command line only
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: BSD-3-Clause License: Apache-2.0
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Checked October 8, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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