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pdf-toolkit: Merge, Split, and Extract Text from PDFs

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pdf-toolkit: Merge, Split, and Extract Text from PDFs

Working with PDFs programmatically shouldn't be hard. pdf-toolkit gives you a straightforward CLI for the most common PDF operations.

Installation 

npm install -g pdf-toolkit-pro
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Features

Merge PDFs 

pdf-toolkit-pro merge file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf -o combined.pdf
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Split PDF 

pdf-toolkit-pro split large.pdf --pages 1-10 -o part1.pdf
pdf-toolkit-pro split large.pdf --pages 11-20 -o part2.pdf
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Extract Text 

pdf-toolkit-pro extract report.pdf -o report.txt
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Get PDF Info 

pdf-toolkit-pro info document.pdf
# Pages: 42
# Author: John Doe
# Created: 2024-01-15
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Use Cases

  • Researchers combining multiple papers
  • Office workers splitting large documents
  • Developers extracting data from PDF reports
  • Students merging scanned notes

Example: Weekly Report Automation 

# Extract data from PDF reports
pdf-toolkit-pro extract weekly_report.pdf -o report_data.txt

# Merge all weekly reports into quarterly report
pdf-toolkit-pro merge week_*.pdf -o Q1_report.pdf
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Links

💻 GitHub: github.com/lb1192176991-lab/pdf-toolkit-pro

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Part of a complete CLI toolkit family. Also check out csv-toolkit, json-tidy, and image-optimizer!

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