Use PyPDF2, which is an advanced fork of PyPDF.

README.md

@@ -8,10 +8,9 @@ PDF documents from the command line.
 
 History
 -------
-PDFtk was written in Java and C++, and
-is natively compiled with gcj. Sadly, it has been discontinued a few years ago
-and bitrot is setting in (e.g., it does not compile easily on a number of
-platforms).
+PDFtk was written in Java and C++, and is natively compiled with gcj. Sadly,
+it has been discontinued a few years ago and bitrot is setting in (e.g.,
+it does not compile easily on a number of platforms).
 
 Philip Stark decided to look for an alternative and found pypdf, a PDF library
 written in pure Python. He couldn't find a tool which actually used the
@@ -27,7 +26,7 @@ feel free to fork and send me a pull request.
 License
 -------
 Stapler version 0.2 was written in 2009 by Philip Stark.
-Stapler version 0.3 was written in 2010 by Fred Wenzel.
+Stapler version 0.3 and later were written from 2010--today by Fred Wenzel.
 
 For a list of contributors, check the ``CONTRIBUTORS`` file.
 

requirements.txt

@@ -1,3 +1 @@
-# check out Python 2.6 compatible pyPdf version
-#pyPdf==1.12
--e git://github.com/mfenniak/pyPdf.git@8ef3142806d482d84cedcde7808dc322d9d0e4a7#egg=pyPdf-1.12-py2.6-trunk
+PyPDF2==1.20

staplelib/commands.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import math
 import os.path
 
-from pyPdf import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader
+from PyPDF2 import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader
 
 from . import CommandError, iohelper
 import staplelib

staplelib/iohelper.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 import re
 import sys
 
-from pyPdf import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader
+from PyPDF2 import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader
 
 from . import CommandError
 import staplelib

staplelib/stapler.py

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
         respectively. (e.g., 1-15R)
 """.strip()
 
+
 # command line option parser
 parser = OptionParser(usage=USAGE)
 parser.add_option('-o', '--ownerpw', action='store', dest='ownerpw',
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@
 parser.add_option('-v', '--verbose', action='store_true', dest='verbose',
                   default=False)
 
+
 def main():
     """
     Handle all command line arguments and pass them on to the respective

staplelib/tests.py

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 import tempfile
 import unittest
 
-from pyPdf import PdfFileReader
+from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader
 
 
 HERE = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))