The cpdf package provides a command-line tool and an OCaml library designed for manipulating PDF documents. Key Features include:

• Splitting and merging PDF files (including bookmark preservation and splitting on bookmarks).

• Encryption and decryption (supports AES 128 and AES 256).

• Page manipulation: scaling, rotation, cropping, and flipping; fitting pages to a specific size.

• Bookmark management: copying, removing, and adding bookmarks.

• Watermarking: stamping logos, page numbers, and multi-line text with transparency support.

• Text and font handling: embedding TrueType fonts, supporting Unicode UTF-8 input and output, and converting text to PDF.

• Presentation features: creating PDF-based presentations and arranging multiple pages on a single page.

• Annotation management: listing, copying, setting, and removing annotations.

• Metadata management: reading and setting document information and metadata.

• Attachment handling: adding and removing file attachments to documents or pages.

• Advanced features: thickening hairlines, blackening text, reconstructing malformed files, detecting missing fonts and low-resolution images, exporting/importing in JSON format, and building table of contents.

• Drawing: Adding graphics and text directly onto PDF files.

MuPDF is a C library that implements a PDF and XPS parsing and rendering engine. It is used primarily to render pages into bitmaps, but also provides support for other operations such as searching and listing the table of contents and hyperlinks.

The library ships with a rudimentary X11 viewer, and a set of command line tools for batch rendering pdfdraw, rewriting files pdfclean, and examining the file structure pdfshow.

This package provides Python bindings for the Qt5 interface of the Poppler PDF rendering library.

Xournal++ is a hand note taking software written in C++ with the target of flexibility, functionality and speed. Stroke recognizer and other parts are based on Xournal code.

Xournal++ features:

• Support for Pen pressure, e.g., Wacom Tablet

• Support for annotating PDFs

• Fill shape functionality

• PDF Export (with and without paper style)

• PNG Export (with and without transparent background)

• Map different tools / colors etc. to stylus buttons / mouse buttons

• Sidebar with Page Previews with advanced page sorting, PDF Bookmarks and Layers (can be individually hidden, editing layer can be selected)

• enhanced support for image insertion

• Eraser with multiple configurations

• LaTeX support

• bug reporting, autosave, and auto backup tools

• Customizable toolbar, with multiple configurations, e.g., to optimize toolbar for portrait / landscape

• Page Template definitions

• Shape drawing (line, arrow, circle, rectangle)

• Shape resizing and rotation

• Rotation snapping every 45 degrees

• Rect snapping to grid

• Audio recording and playback alongside with handwritten notes

• Multi Language Support, Like English, German, Italian...

• Plugins using LUA Scripting

PDF Arranger is a small application which allows one to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface.

PDF Arranger was formerly known as PDF-Shuffler.

PoDoFo is a C++ library and set of command-line tools to work with the PDF file format. It can parse PDF files and load them into memory, and makes it easy to modify them and write the changes to disk. It is primarily useful for applications that wish to do lower level manipulation of PDF, such as extracting content or merging files.

QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files. It could have been called something like pdf-to-pdf. It includes support for merging and splitting PDFs and to manipulate the list of pages in a PDF file. It is not a PDF viewer or a program capable of converting PDF into other formats.

libHaru is a library for generating PDF files. libHaru does not support reading and editing of existing PDF files.

pdfposter can be used to create a large poster by building it from multiple pages and/or printing it on large media. It expects as input a PDF file, normally printing on a single page. The output is again a PDF file, maybe containing multiple pages together building the poster. The input page will be scaled to obtain the desired size.

This is much like poster does for Postscript files, but working with PDF. Since sometimes poster does not like your files converted from PDF. Indeed pdfposter was inspired by poster.

Paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file through the Pango Cairo back end.

PDFmarks is a technique that accompanies PDF, and that is used to store metadata such as author or title, but also structural information such as bookmarks or hyperlinks.

When Ghostscript reads the main PDF generated by the TeX system with embedded PDF files and outputs the final PDF, the PDF page mode and name targets etc. are not preserved. Therefore, when you open the final PDF, it is not displayed correctly. Also, remote PDF links do not work correctly.

This program is able to extract the page mode and named targets as PDFmark from PDF. In this way, you can obtain embedded PDF files that have kept this information.

diffpdf lets you compare PDF files, offering three comparison modes: words, characters, and appearance.

Impressive is a tool to display PDF files that provides visual effects such as smooth alpha-blended slide transitions. It provides additional tools such as zooming, highlighting an area of the screen, and a tool to navigate the PDF pages.

Stapler is a pure Python alternative to PDFtk, a tool for manipulating PDF documents from the command line. It supports

• cherry-picking pages and concatenating them into a new file

• splitting a PDF document into single pages each in its own file

• merging PDF documents with their pages interleaved

• displaying metadata in a PDF document

• displaying the mapping between logical and physical page numbers

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

PoDoFo is a C++ library and set of command-line tools to work with the PDF file format. It can parse PDF files and load them into memory, and makes it easy to modify them and write the changes to disk. It is primarily useful for applications that wish to do lower level manipulation of PDF, such as extracting content or merging files.

The zathura-cb plugin adds comic book support to zathura using libarchive.

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 only the command line tool. If you like to use the gui, please install the flyer-composer-gui package.

PyPDF2 is a pure Python PDF library capable of:

1. extracting document information (title, author, …)

2. splitting documents page by page

3. merging documents page by page

4. cropping pages

5. merging multiple pages into a single page

6. encrypting and decrypting PDF files

By being pure Python, it should run on any Python platform without any dependencies on external libraries. It can also work entirely on StringIO objects rather than file streams, allowing for PDF manipulation in memory. It is therefore a useful tool for websites that manage or manipulate PDFs.

pdf2svg is a simple command-line PDF to SVG converter using the Poppler and Cairo libraries.

GNU Pem is a simple tool for tracking personal income and expenses. It operates from the command line and it stores its data in a basic text format in your home directory. It can easily print reports of your spending on different expenses via a basic search feature.

Test::Needs allows you to skip test scripts if modules are not available. The requested modules will be loaded, and optionally have their versions checked. If the module is missing, the test script will be skipped. Modules that are found but fail to compile will exit with an error rather than skip.

If used in a subtest, the remainder of the subtest will be skipped.

Test::TrailingSpace tests for trailing spaces in Perl source files.

Test::Simple contains basic utilities for writing tests.