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PDF

Stering-PDf - Locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files. See also PDFPea - Edit PDFs Online Securely and Free | Privacy-First PDF Editor

Dangerzone - Convert potentially dangerous documents into safe PDFs

ExifTool by Phil Harvey -Read, Write and Edit Meta Information!

QPDF - A Content-Preserving PDF Transformation System

Some of these above were found via


small script to cleanup pdfs in general (reducing their size as well), via.

pdftops -paper A4 -expand -level3 file.pdf
ps2pdf14 -dEmbedAllFonts=true          \
    -dUseFlateCompression=true           \
    -dOptimize=true                      \
    -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceRGB       \
    -r72                                 \
    -dDownsampleGrayImages=true          \
    -dGrayImageResolution=150            \
    -dAutoFilterGrayImages=false         \
    -dGrayImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic   \
    -dDownsampleMonoImages=true          \
    -dMonoImageResolution=150            \
    -dMonoImageDownsampleType=/Subsample \
    -dDownsampleColorImages=true         \
    -dColorImageResolution=150           \
    -dAutoFilterColorImages=false        \
    -dColorImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic  \
    -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook                 \
    -dNOSAFER                            \
    -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY                \
    -dShowAnnots=false                   \
     file.pdf file.pdf

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pyPdf

pybrary.net

A Pure-Python library built as a PDF toolkit. It is capable of: * extracting document information (title, author, ...), * splitting documents page by page, * merging documents page by page, * cropping pages, * merging multiple pages into a single page.

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