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It is suggested that you use Python modules or Stirling-PDF instead of
pdftkto manipulating PDFs for several reasons. First, even thoughpdftkis a great command-line tool, it is hard to remember its syntax. On the contratry, Python code is easy to read and understand (even though it is …
Editing PDF Files
Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!
| Type | Name | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Web Tools | Stirling-PDF |
- robust - local hosted - Docker container based |
| Parseur | - AI-based PDF parser | |
| DocuSign | - Great for convert PDF files to MS Office files … |
Extracting PDF Pages Using the Python Package PyPDF
- The Python package PyPDF can be used to extract pages from a PDF file. The function aiutil.pdf.extract_pages is a wrapper over PyPDF which makes it even easier to extract pages from a PDF file.
- Stirling-PDF is is a robust, locally hosted web-based PDF manipulation tool using Docker.
Convert PDF to EPS
There are tons of tools for converting PDF pictures to EPS pictures in Linux.
The pdf2ps command is a good one.
It produces EPS pictures without losing much resolution.
The general purpose tools convert
(from the ImageMagick package) does not produce as good quality EPS figures.