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Python interface to Libcpdf

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pycpdflib

pycpdflib is a Python interface to the cpdf pdf tools. More information, including commercial licenses can be found at https://www.coherentpdf.com/

The non-commercial home of pycpdflib is http://community.coherentpdf.com/

The python package may be installed with

pip install pycpdflib

and imported into your program with

import pycpdflib

Functionality

  • Quality Split and Merge, keeping bookmarks. Extract pages. Split on Bookmarks.
  • Encrypt and Decrypt (including AES 128 and AES 256 encryption)
  • Scale, rotate, crop and flip pages. Scale pages to fit
  • Copy, Remove and Add bookmarks
  • Stamp logos, watermarks, page numbers and multiline text. Transparency.
  • Supports Unicode UTF8 text input and output
  • Put multiple pages on a single page
  • List, copy, or remove annotations
  • Read and set document information and metadata
  • Add and remove file attachments to document or page.
  • Thicken hairlines, blacken text, make draft documents
  • Reconstruct malformed files
  • Detect missing fonts, low resolution images

Obtaining the DLLs

The DLLs pycpdflib and cpdflib are required. They are free for non-commercial use. Commercial use requires a license. The DLLs can be obtained here:

https://github.com/coherentgraphics/cpdflib-binary

Documentation

Full manual (required reading): https://coherentpdf.com/pycpdflibmanual.pdf

Follow the instructions at the end of Chapter 1 to load the DLLs and write your first pycpdflib program.

Quick reference API docs: https://python-libcpdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Contact

mailto:contact@coherentgraphics.co.uk

Bug report: https://github.com/coherentgraphics/python-libcpdf