pycpdflib is a Python interface to the cpdf pdf tools.
pycpdflib is distributed under the AGPL - see LICENSE.md. If you are unable to abide by the terms of the AGPL, you will need a commercial license.
For commercial licenses, email contact@coherentgraphics.co.uk or visit https://www.coherentpdf.com/
The python package may be installed with
pip install pycpdflib
and imported into your program with
import pycpdflib
- 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
The DLLs pycpdflib and cpdflib are required. They may be obtained here:
https://github.com/coherentgraphics/cpdflib-binary
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/
For commercial licenses, or queries: mailto:contact@coherentgraphics.co.uk
Bug report: https://github.com/coherentgraphics/python-libcpdf