This is the ReportLab PDF Toolkit. It allows rapid creation of rich PDF documents, and also creation of charts in a variety of bitmap and vector formats.

pydyf is a low-level PDF generator written in Python and based on PDF specification 1.7.

PDFCrack is a simple tool for recovering passwords from PDF documents that use the standard security handler.

WeasyPrint helps web developers to create PDF documents. It turns simple HTML pages into gorgeous statistical reports, invoices, tickets, etc.

From a technical point of view, WeasyPrint is a visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF and PNG. It aims to support web standards for printing.

It is based on various libraries but not on a full rendering engine like WebKit or Gecko. The CSS layout engine is written in Python, designed for pagination, and meant to be easy to hack on. Weasyprint can also be used as a python library.

Keywords: html2pdf, htmltopdf

The zathura-pdf-mupdf plugin adds PDF support to zathura by using the mupdf rendering library.

A4PDF is a low-level library for generating PDF files. It does not have a document model and instead uses PDF primitives directly. It uses LittleCMS for color management but otherwise does not convert data in any way.

This package provides a tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. It can:

• Merge PDF documents or collate PDF page scans

• Split PDF pages into a new document

• Rotate PDF documents or pages

• Decrypt input as necessary (password required)

• Encrypt output as desired

• Fill PDF forms with X/FDF data and/or flatten forms

• Generate FDF data stencils from PDF forms

• Apply a background watermark or a foreground stamp

• Report PDF metrics, bookmarks and metadata

• Add/Update PDF bookmarks or metadata

• Attach files to PDF pages or the PDF document

• Unpack PDF attachments

• Burst a PDF document into single pages

• Uncompress and re-compress page streams

• Repair corrupted PDF (where possible)

Pdfgrep searches in pdf files for strings matching a regular expression. Support some GNU grep options as file name output, page number output, optional case insensitivity, count occurrences, color highlights and search in multiple files.

fbida contains a few applications for viewing and editing images on the framebuffer.

Zathura is a customizable document viewer. It provides a minimalistic interface and an interface that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction.

The zathura-djvu plugin adds DjVu support to zathura using the DjVuLibre library.

Xournal is an application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus.

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

qpdfview is a document viewer for PDF, PS and DJVU files. It uses the Qt toolkit and features persistent per-file settings, configurable toolbars and shortcuts, continuous and multi‐page layouts, SyncTeX support, and rudimentary support for annotations and forms.

Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base. Poppler gives access to the following binary programs:

• pdfattach

• pdfdetach

• pdffonts

• pdfimages

• pdfinfo

• pdfseparate

• pdfsig

• pdftocairo

• pdftohtml

• pdftoppm

• pdftops

• pdftotext

• pdfunite

The zathura-pdf-poppler plugin adds PDF support to zathura by using the poppler rendering engine.

The zathura-ps plugin adds PS support to zathura using libspectre.

flyer-composer can be used to prepare one- or two-sided flyers for printing on one sheet of paper.

Imagine you have designed a flyer in A6 format and want to print it using your A4 printer. Of course, you want to print four flyers on each sheet. This is where Flyer Composer steps in, creating a PDF which holds your flyer four times. If you have a second page, Flyer Composer can arrange it the same way - even if the second page is in a separate PDF file.

This package contains both the command line tool and the gui too.

This package provides optional encoding files for Poppler. When present, Poppler is able to correctly render CJK and Cyrillic text.

This package provides a PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming PDF files.

pdfpc is a presentation viewer application which uses multi-monitor output to provide meta information to the speaker during the presentation. It is able to show a normal presentation window on one screen, while showing a more sophisticated overview on the other one providing information like a picture of the next slide, as well as the left over time till the end of the presentation. The input files processed by pdfpc are PDF documents.

Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers.

unpaper is a post-processing tool for scanned sheets of paper, especially for book pages that have been scanned from previously created photocopies.

Its main purpose is to make scanned book pages better readable on screen after conversion to PDF. Additionally, unpaper might be useful to enhance the quality of scanned pages before performing OCR.

img2pdf converts images to PDF via direct JPEG inclusion. That conversion is lossless: the image embedded in the PDF has the exact same color information for every pixel as the input.