Web interface to pdftk and pdfjam

Those tools are the best for managing PDF pages. But they have two major drawbacks:

1. PDFjam installs to 430 MB (because of texlive dependency), which is a lot.
2. They are not available on Windows.

For casual PDF processing it would be nice to have a web service, which receives some PDFs and processes them with those tools. This service was specifically aimed at stitching A5 pages into A4 printer-ready documents.

CGI

The simplest is the CGI interface. It consists of a plain HTML file to be placed anywhere in a document root and of python CGI script for /cgi-bin directory. Check paths to pdftk and pdfjam in the script — and you're ready to go.

Flask application

The web application allows for visualizing PDF pages, using raster images as pages, rearranging and rotating them visually, and producing PDF with pdftk + pdfjam. Run run.py and open http://localhost:5000 to use it.

Author and license

The script was written by Ilya Zverev and published under WTFPL license.