pdfout is a lightweight PDF toolkit written in C. It is heavily based on the mupdf library.

The functionality is organized into small subcommands. You can

• dump and modify outlines, page labels and keys of the information dictionary. These support JSON for input and output.

• extract text

• repair broken cross-reference tables

Download and checkout the mupdf submodule:

user $ git clone git://github.com/amba/pdfout.git && cd pdfout

Check out the mupdf submodule:

user $ ./make.pl submodules

Apart from mupdf, there are no thirdparty dependencies.

Build and install with

user $ ./make.pl
user $ ./make.pl --install --prefix=$HOME/local

See the docs for full details.

Now you can run

user $ pdfout --describe-commands

to list the available subcommands.

So far, the docs mostly cover the build and internals. More docs on the commands are currently being written.

pdfout is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Copyright (C) 2015-2016 AUTHORS

See the COPYRIGHT file for full details on used libraries and code derived from other projects.