Version 0.4.0: CLI and Documentation Alignment

Major Changes

• Fixed misalignment between CLI implementation and documentation
• Added dependency verification with --check-dependencies
• Enhanced user experience with post-install messages
• Updated installation docs to focus on pipx
• Fixed mutool version check to handle non-zero exit code

Breaking Changes

• Image extraction now only saves page images as PNG (removed embedded image extraction)
• Requires Python 3.11.x and mutool

Installation

# Install pipx if you haven't already
brew install pipx  # macOS
# OR
python3 -m pip install --user pipx  # Other systems

# Install pdf_processor with Python 3.11 (required)
pipx install pdf_processor --python python3.11

# Verify installation
pdf-process --check-dependencies

System Requirements

• Python 3.11.x (required by PyMuPDF)
• mutool (part of MuPDF tools)

To install mutool:

# macOS
brew install mupdf

# Ubuntu/Debian
apt-get install mupdf-tools

# Arch Linux
pacman -S mupdf-tools