24 tools
Command-line PDF manipulation toolkit: split, merge, and extract pages while preserving bookmarks; encrypt/decrypt (AES 128/256); scale, rotate, crop, and flip pages; stamp text, watermarks, and page numbers; manage annotations, metadata, and file attachments; rasterize pages to images; and produce PDF/UA-tagged output.
Go library for generating PDFs: Unicode/CJK subfont text with kerning, alignment, sub/superscript, RGB/CMYK color; vector shapes (lines, ovals, rounded rectangles, polygons, curves); JPG/PNG images with masking; password protection with permissions; headers/footers, links, transparency/blend modes; table layout; page rotation; and importing/reusing existing PDF pages as templates.
JavaAndroid PDF toolkit centered on creating PDFs from camera or gallery images (plus converting plain text files to PDF), alongside managing existing PDFs: merge, split, compress, remove/rearrange/rotate pages, extract images, and encrypt/decrypt. Aimed at the common mobile use case of turning photographed documents or receipts into a shareable PDF, with the page-management tools included as a secondary, more general-purpose capability.
PerlPerl module (built on PDF::Reuse) for generating multi-page PDFs: text with font/size/color control, 14 built-in fonts plus custom TTF embedding (with Unicode), alignment and rotation, regex-based text formatting, JPEG image embedding, importing pages from existing PDFs as templates, horizontal rules, raw content streams, and auto-sized tables with headers, borders, padding, and page-overflow handling.
PythonAdds a searchable OCR text layer beneath page images and produces a validated PDF/A file: deskews crooked pages, optionally cleans images pre-OCR, optimizes/compresses images, recognizes 100+ languages via Tesseract, rotates misrotated pages, edits output metadata, parallelizes across CPU cores, and processes multi-thousand-page files in place.
Small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. A GUI front-end for pikepdf; can also import images into a PDF when img2pdf is installed.
PerlPure-Perl (PDF 1.0–1.3), dependency-free module for creating PDFs: multi-page documents with standard paper sizes and page rotation/crop/bleed/trim boxes; built-in PostScript fonts with Unicode/international character support; lines, GIF/JPEG image embedding, and clickable URI link annotations; hierarchical outline/table of contents; and document metadata.
Perl module for building PDFs by reusing existing pages as templates/backgrounds: adds positioned/rotated text, embeds JPEG images, hyperlinks, and raw PDF operators; supports built-in and embedded TrueType (UTF-8) fonts, hierarchical bookmarks, attached/embedded JavaScript actions, form field value assignment, and content stream compression.
GoGo PDF processor (CLI + library) supporting PDF up to 2.0 (ISO 32000-2): validate, optimize, split, trim, and merge PDFs; encrypt/decrypt; resize, rotate, and crop pages; extract/manipulate images, fonts, and metadata; manage attachments and portfolios; validate, report, and remove digital signatures; add/remove stamps and watermarks; process forms, bookmarks, and annotations; and generate booklets, N-up/N-down layouts, grids, and posters.
Pure-Python CLI (companion to pypdf) with commands including 2-up/booklet page layout, cat (extract/merge pages), check-sign (verify signatures), compress/uncompress, extract-annotated-pages, extract-images, extract-links, extract-text, meta/pagemeta, rm (delete pages), rotate, sign, update-offsets (repair simple PDFs), and x2pdf (convert other formats to PDF pages).
Reads and writes PDFs: subset/merge/rotate pages, modify metadata, build reusable Form XObjects, N-up and booklet layouts, watermarking (overlay/underlay), image and Form-XObject extraction, poster-sized output, and splitting 2-up PDFs; integrates with ReportLab (embedding existing PDF content into newly generated documents) and rst2pdf. No encryption/decryption support, and limited compression-filter support (external tools like pdftk needed for full decompression).
Free, cross-platform desktop app (JavaFX, self-contained with a bundled JRE since v4) for splitting, merging, mixing, rotating, and extracting pages from PDF files through a simple drag-and-drop GUI. Built around PDFBox and other open-source PDF libraries under the hood, packaging their capabilities into point-and-click tools rather than requiring command-line usage. A free, basic-operations counterpart to PDFsam's own commercial 'Enhanced' edition, which adds more advanced features.
PythonToolkit for extracting tabular data from OCR'd ('sandwich') PDFs already converted to pdf2xml format: splits scanned double pages, detects lines via image processing, corrects page skew/rotation, clusters lines/text into table columns and rows, and exports to pandas DataFrames (CSV, Excel, etc.). Not an OCR tool itself — requires pre-OCR'd input from Tesseract/ABBYY; the authors recommend trying `pdftotext` first.
Free Windows GUI front-end for the PDFtk command-line tool, exposing its operations — split, merge, stamp, add page numbers, rotate, edit metadata, manage bookmarks and attachments — through point-and-click dialogs instead of the command line. Aimed at users who want PDFtk's capabilities without writing or remembering CLI invocations, or learning PDFtk's own multi-flag command syntax for routine batch operations.
Command-line tool to merge, split, and rotate PDFs; fill forms with FDF/XFDF data and flatten them (or generate an FDF stencil from a form's fields); encrypt and decrypt with passwords; add watermarks and stamps; manage bookmarks, metadata, and attachments; repair damaged PDFs; and recompress page streams. The Java-rewritten 'Server' edition of the classic PDFtk command-line tool, maintaining the same CLI interface and command syntax as the original.
Converts XML (or Markdown) documents to PDF or images (JPEG/PNG via GD/Imagick/Gmagick) with HTML-like tags (div, p, table, headings, lists, images, links); supports auto-breakable/fixed pages, multi-column layouts, headers/footers/watermarks, page numbering, metadata, internal/external links, bookmarks, sticky notes, barcodes (via Zend), simple pie charts, borders, backgrounds, rotation/transparency, and stylesheets; usable via web or CLI, with Symfony2 integration.
Pythonic wrapper around qpdf for reading, writing, and manipulating PDFs: merge, split, rotate, rearrange, and delete pages; read/write XMP and DocumentInfo metadata (auto-synced); losslessly extract or replace embedded images (preserving original JPEG compression); open password-protected files and save with RC4, AES-128, or AES-256 encryption (or remove it); linearize for 'fast web view'; direct object-level/content-stream access; automatic repair on open; access to qpdf's Job API; and Jupyter notebook preview rendering.
PythonOriginal pure-Python PDF manipulation library: reading, merging, cropping, and rotating pages, encryption/decryption, and text extraction — the ancestor codebase that both PyPDF2 and, eventually, today's pypdf were built from. The project's own page states it is 'no longer updated,' with its last release dating to December 2012; kept here for historical completeness rather than as something to newly adopt.
Fluent-API PDF generation library for .NET: page layout, headers/footers, tables, columns, sections, watermarks, text/fonts/colors/backgrounds/borders, images, SVG, alignment/padding/scaling/rotation/layering, loops/conditionals/reusable components for data-driven documents, merging, encryption, metadata, page extraction, and PDF/A, PDF/UA, and EN 16931 (e-invoicing) compliance.
JavaScriptDisplays existing PDFs in React apps (built on PDF.js): renders pages via `<Document>`/`<Page>` with canvas, custom, or no rendering; shows outline/table of contents and thumbnails; selectable text and annotation/link layers; form rendering; page rotation and zoom; password-protected PDF handling; JPEG2000 and non-Latin (cMap) support. (Complementary to @react-pdf/renderer, which creates PDFs rather than displaying them.)
JavaScriptNode.js wrapper around PDFtk, Ghostscript, and ImageMagick for PDF manipulation: split/select/reorder/reverse pages, filter even/odd pages, join multiple PDFs, rotate (90/180/270/360°), crop (noted as unreliable), extract text and embedded images, extract metadata/properties, and render pages to PNG at a given DPI.
Comprehensive Go PDF toolkit for reading, writing, and processing PDFs: text/image/table extraction, merging/splitting/rotating/rearranging pages, form creation and filling, encryption/decryption, digital signing, watermarking, and image-to-PDF conversion.
Go PDF library (pure Go): generates reports/invoices with styled text and tables; creates and fills forms; merges, splits, reorders, and rotates pages (incl. N-up layouts); extracts text (with position/formatting), images, and tabular data to CSV; adds/converts images to PDF; removes or adds password protection; validates and applies digital signatures; compresses/optimizes files; adds watermarks; and supports CCITTFax/JBIG2 image decoding.
JavaScriptVue 2 component for displaying PDFs from URLs, file paths, or binary data: page navigation, 90°-increment rotation, password-protected PDF handling, per-page or range printing, load-progress tracking, text extraction/selection, clickable internal links, and rendering multiple page instances at once.