Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: pycpdflib
Version: 2.4
Summary: Python interface to Coherent PDF Tools
Home-page: https://coherentpdf.com/
Author: Coherent Graphics Ltd
Author-email: contact@coherentgraphics.co.uk
License: UNKNOWN
Project-URL: Bug Tracker, https://github.com/coherentgraphics/python-libcpdf/issues
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Requires-Python: >=3.8
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
License-File: LICENSE

# pycpdflib

pycpdflib is a Python interface to the cpdf pdf tools. More information,
including commercial licenses can be found at <https://www.coherentpdf.com/>

The non-commercial home of pycpdf is <http://community.coherentpdf.com/>


Functionality
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* Quality Split and Merge, keeping bookmarks. Extract pages. Split on Bookmarks.
* Encrypt and Decrypt (including AES 128 and AES 256 encryption)
* Scale, rotate, crop and flip pages. Scale pages to fit
* Copy, Remove and Add bookmarks
* Stamp logos, watermarks, page numbers and multiline text. Transparency.
* Supports Unicode UTF8 text input and output
* Put multiple pages on a single page
* List, copy, or remove annotations
* Read and set document information and metadata
* Add and remove file attachments to document or page.
* Thicken hairlines, blacken text, make draft documents
* Reconstruct malformed files
* Detect missing fonts, low resolution images


Obtaining the DLLs
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The DLLs `pycpdflib` and `cpdflib` are required. They are free for
non-commercial use. Commercial use requires a license. The DLLs can be obtained
here:

<https://github.com/coherentgraphics/cpdflib-binary>


Documentation
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Full manual (required reading): <https://coherentpdf.com/pycpdflibmanual.pdf>

Follow the instructions at the end of Chapter 1 to load the DLLs and write your
first pycpdf program.

Quick reference API docs: <https://python-libcpdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>


Contact
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<mailto:contact@coherentgraphics.co.uk>

Bug report: <https://github.com/coherentgraphics/python-libcpdf>


