pdfout

pdfout is a lightweight PDF toolkit written in C. It is heavily based on the mupdf library.

Features

The functionality is organized into small subcommands. You can

• dump and modify outlines, page labels and keys of the information dictionary. These support JSON for input and output.

• extract text

• repair broken cross-reference tables

Installing

Download and checkout the mupdf submodule:

user $ git clone git://github.com/amba/pdfout.git && cd pdfout

Check out the mupdf submodule:

user $ ./make.pl submodules

Apart from mupdf, there are no thirdparty dependencies.

Build and install with

user $ ./make.pl
user $ ./make.pl --install --prefix=$HOME/local

See the docs for full details.

Now you can run

user $ pdfout --describe-commands

to list the available subcommands.

Documentation

So far, the docs mostly cover the build and internals. More docs on the commands are currently being written.

Copying

pdfout is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Copyright (C) 2015-2016 AUTHORS

See the COPYRIGHT file for full details on used libraries and code derived from other projects.