pdfCropMargins
pdfCropMargins -- a program to crop the margins of PDF files (by abarker)
stapler
A small utility making use of the pypdf library to provide a (somewhat) lighter alternative to pdftk (by hellerbarde)
| pdfCropMargins | stapler | |
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| 1 | 3 | |
| 327 | 282 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.9 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 month ago | 11 months ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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pdfCropMargins
Posts with mentions or reviews of pdfCropMargins.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-27.
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Right tablet with Linux? Difference between gen 1 and 2 and other questions...
To crop margins, I recommend pdfCropMargins: https://github.com/abarker/pdfCropMargins This works great on Linux, and unlike a lot of other cropping software, (i) it uses visual analysis so it's reliable even on PDFs with wonky crop boxes, and (ii) it embeds metadata so that it's fully reversible, so you only need to keep one copy of a cropped file around and you can regenerate the original if you need it.
stapler
Posts with mentions or reviews of stapler.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-04.
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Google reverses 5M file limit in Google Drive
... That happens to be a Python alternative to PDFtk[1]. It’s been kind of abandoned in recent years, though.
Also, in the early times of OLE 2.0 MS Office included a utility called Binder that could put several Office documents in a single file and edit them using a common interface. Nothing came of it.
[1] https://github.com/hellerbarde/stapler
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Papermerge (almost) 2.0 is out!
In UI you can cut pages from one document and pasted those pages into another document. Afterwards you can sort/reorder pages. Up until version 2.0 Papermerge was using pdftk for "cut" and "paste" operations. Because of pdftk licensing (plus its dependency on java) - it was replaced by stapler which is pure python equivalent of pdftk. Stapler is BSD licensed.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pdfCropMargins and stapler you can also consider the following projects:
pdftools - A collection of PDF command line tools and wrappers for Linux
pdf2docx - Open source Python library for converting PDF to DOCX.
dpt-rp1-py - Python script to manage a Sony DPT-RP1 without the Digital Paper App
Paperless-ng - A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents