mergepdfs

A tool for inserting, merging, and general manipulation of pages in multiple pdf documents.

Installation

To install the latest development in the main branch

Directly from github

$ pip install git+https://github.com/duttad/mergepdfs.git@main

After cloning the repo

Navigate to the directory containing the pyproject.toml file and use pip install.

$ pip install .

To install a specific tag

Directly from github

$ pip install git+https://github.com/duttad/mergepdfs.git@<tag>

E.g., $ pip install git+https://github.com/duttad/mergepdfs.git@v0.1.1

After cloning the repo

$ git checkout tags/<tag> -b <tag>-branch

Make sure you are in the directory containing the pyproject.toml file and use pip install.

$ pip install .

Usage

$ mergepdfs merge doc_1 start_page_1 end_page_1 doc_2 start_page_2 end_page_2 doc_3 start_page_3 end_page_3 doc_1 start_page_4 end_page_4 doc_2 start_page_5 end_page_5 ...

doc1, doc2, etc. are the filenames of the pdf documents with or without the .pdf suffix. Page numbering is 1-based. That is, the first page of the document has the page number 1, etc. The special page number end_page = 0 indicates end of the document (last page).

As in the example, pages from a document can appear in any order in the final merged document.

The output filename can be chosen with the option --op outputfilename (without the .pdf suffix)

If no option is given, the defult output filename is output.pdf

Sample use case

Your financial institution sends you a pdf document and asks you return a scanned copy of it after signing pages 2 and the last page. with this tool, you can print only the relevant pages, sign, and then "replace" the relevant pages with the scanned copies of the signed pages.