Read, write, and edit PDF files with borb, a pure Python library

• borb

  1 3,277 5.2 Python

  borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.

  Page numbers are part of the PageInfo object within a PDF, but it looks like currently this is generated naively [0], so I don't think multiple numbering schemes are currently supported by this library.

  [0] https://github.com/jorisschellekens/borb/blob/master/borb/pd...

• xournalpp

  16 10,180 9.4 C++

  Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.

  

  So, are there decent lower-level (e.g. C++ or even C) libraries for doing this, which this library wraps? Or does this actually do the nitty-gritty PDF innards itself?

  As for myself, I've not had to automate work on PDFs, luckily; for manual manipulation and annotation I've found Xournal++ sort of useful (https://xournalpp.github.io/). Inkscape can also be used with some questionable PDFs.

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• borb-examples

  0 395 6.2 Python

  And the example repository shows off its capabilities better too:

  https://github.com/jorisschellekens/borb-examples

• HexaPDF

  1 1,179 9.3 Ruby

  Versatile PDF creation and manipulation for Ruby

  If you want to do something like this in Ruby, have a look at HexaPDF - https://hexapdf.gettalong.org/ - which provides a full-blown implementation for reading and writing PDFs and is quite mature already (n.b. I'm the author).

  It is licensed AGPL+Commercial but if you just use it for yourself, this does not matter as you can use the AGPL.

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