Aspose.PDF CLI App
Aspose.PDF is a CLI tool which makes working with PDF files very easy. It supports the most common PDF operations. The application is powered by the Aspose.PDF for C++ library.
Features:
- Merge PDF files
- Split PDF files
- Extract text from PDF files
- Extract images from PDF files
- Decrypt PDF files
- Change user/owner password
- Optimize PDF files
- Rotate PDF pages
- Add watermark (stamps) images to PDF files
- Convert PDF files to grayscale
- Convert PDF to PDF/A
- Set headers/footers to the PDF document pages
- Add background image to the pages of the PDF document
- Rotate pages
- Sign PDF with digital signature
- Add page nummbers
- Render PDF pages to images
- Convert PDF to DOCX
- Convert PDF to XLSX
- Convert PDF to PPTX
- Import PS, PCL and save as PDF
- Convert SVG to PDF
- Convert TEX to PDF
- Convert XPS to PDF
- Create PDF from XSL-FO
Installation on macOS
To install asposepdftool on macOS using Homebrew, follow these steps:
- Add the tap for
asposepdftool:
brew tap aspose-pdf/asposepdftool https://github.com/aspose-pdf/asposepdftool
- Install
asposepdftool:
brew install asposepdftool
- Verify the installation:
This will ensure that the tool is installed correctly and ready for use.
Please share your feedback, bugs and suggestions for improvement on email support-pdf@aspose.com or free forum site.
How to use Aspose.PDF CLI App:
Optimize PDF
> asposepdftool
optimize <input-file> [output-file]
- <input-file> - initial file for optimization
- [output-file] - optional parameter if the name of the result file is not specified the source pdf file will be overwritten
Extract text from PDF
> asposepdftool
text <input-file> [output-file]
- <input-file> - initial file for extraction
- [output-file] - optional parameter if the name of the text file is not specified it will be the same as the name of the source pdf file with the
.txt extension
Extract images from PDF
> asposepdftool
images [-png] [-gs] <input-file> [destination-directory]
- <input-file> - initial file for extraction
- [destination-directory] - optional parameter, if the destination directory is not specified it will be the same as in the source pdf file
Merge PDF files into single document
> asposepdftool
merge <PDF-sourcefile-1>..<PDF-sourcefile-n> <PDF-destinationfile>
Split PDF files
> asposepdftool
split <PDF-sourcefile> <number of page to split at> [PDF-destinationfile-1] [PDF-destinationfile-2]
- <PDF-sourcefile> - initial file for splitting
- [PDF-destinationfile-x] - optional parameter, if the names of the destination files are not specified they will be the same as the source filename with suffixes ‘_1’ and ‘_2’ correspondingly.
Add images to PDF files
> asposepdftool
addimages <PDF-source-file> [-out=result-file]
..<image-file-n>- <PDF-source-file> - initial file for splitting
- [-out=result-file] - optional parameter, allows to set the result file namefilename with suffixes ‘_1’ and ‘_2’ correspondingly.
Add stamp (watermark) to PDF files
> asposepdftool
addstamp [options] <PDF-file> <image-file> [<result-file>]
Options:- -pages=range range of pages to process. Example: -pages=1,3,5-7
- -bg image stamped as background
- -x= x coordinate of stamp
- -y= y coordinate of stamp
- -w= width of stamp
- -h= height of stamp
- -o= the stamp opacity. The value is from 0.0 to 1.0
- -r=90|180|270 angle of rotation
Decrypt PDF
> asposepdftool
decrypt <PDF-file> <password> [<result-file>]
Encrypt PDF
> asposepdftool
encrypt [options] <PDF-file> [<result-file>]
Set password protection to PDF file
Options:
- -up=string user password.
- -op=string owner password.
- -alg=RC4x40|RC4x128|AESx128|AESx256 crypto algorithm. Default value AESx256
- -p=number permission as sum of the following values
| PrintDocument | 4 |
| ModifyContent | 8 |
| ExtractContent | 16 |
| ModifyTextAnnotations | 32 |
| FillForm | 256 |
| ExtractContentWithDisabilities | 512 |
| AssembleDocument | 1024 |
| PrintingQuality | 2048 |
Get PDF Metadata
> asposepdftool
getinfo <PDF-file>
Set PDF Metadata
> asposepdftool
setinfo [options] <PDF-file> [<result-file>]
Options:- -title=string set document title
- -author=string set document’s author
- -creator=string> set document’s creator
- -subject=string set document subject
- -keywords=string set keywords
- -creation=datetime update date of document creation
- -mod=datetime update date of document modification
List of fonts in PDF
> asposepdftool
fonts <PDF-file>
Enumerate font in PDF
Remove page or pages from PDF
> asposepdftool
delete -pages=range <PDF-file> [result-file]
Delete specified pages from the PDF document. Range is a string with page numbers (ex. -pages=1,3,5-7)
Remove page or pages from PDF
> asposepdftool
delete -pages=range <PDF-file> [result-file]
Delete specified pages from the PDF document. Range is a string with page numbers (ex. -pages=1,3,5-7)
Convert PDF to PDF/A
> asposepdftool
pdfa <PDF-file> [result-file] [-log=log-file]
Convert the PDF document to PDF/A format. If the name of the result file is not specified the source pdf file will be overwritten
Set headers/footers to the PDF document pages
> asposepdftool
header [-header=string] [-footer=string] <PDF-file> [result-file] [-log=log-file]
Set headers/footers to the PDF document pages
Set headers/footers to the PDF document pages
> asposepdftool
background <PDF-file> <image-file> [result-file]
Set headers/footers to the PDF document pages
Make the PDF document grayscaled
> asposepdftool
grayscale <PDF-file> [result-file]
Convert PDF pages to grayscale format.
Rotate pages in the PDF document
> asposepdftool
rotate <PDF-file> [result-file]
Turn pages clockwise or counterclockwise in PDF document.
Options:
- -pages=range range of pages to process
- -r=90|180|270 angle of rotation
Sign the PDF document
> asposepdftool
sign [options] <PDF-file> [result-file]
Sign the PDF document with digital signature
Options:
- -page=int page to sign. Default value is 1.
- -sign=string signature in PKCS#7 fil format.
- -pass=string> password
- -rect=x,y,w,h - rectangle for sign
- -reason=string
- -contact=string
- -location=string
- -image=image-file signature appearance
- -v means visible
Convert PDF to JPEG
> asposepdftool
jpg <PDF-file> [destination-directory]
Convert PDF to PNG
> asposepdftool
png <PDF-file> [destination-directory]
Convert PDF to TIFF
> asposepdftool
tiff <PDF-file> [
] [-separate] [-1bpp] [-skipblank] [-brightness=value]- -separate saves each page into separate tiff image
- -1bpp the color depth of resulting image is 1 bit per pixel
- -skipblank skip blank pages
- -brightness=value from 0.0 to 1.0 for 1bpp images. Default value is 0.33
Add page numbering
> asposepdftool
apn <PDF-file> [result-file] [-font=font_name>] [-size=font_size] [-b] [-i] [-l|-r]
- -font=font_name - font for numeration
- -size=font_size - font size
- -b - bold style
- -i - italic style
- -l - left alignment
- -r - right alignment
Convert PDF to Word
> asposepdftool
docx[-ef] <PDF-file> [result-file]
Options:
- -ef - set recognition mode to EnhancedFlow
Convert PDF to Excel
> asposepdftool
xlsx <PDF-file> [result-file]
Convert PDF to Powerpoint
> asposepdftool
pptx <PDF-file> [result-file]
Convert PDF to SVG
> asposepdftool
svg <PDF-file> [result-file]
Convert PDF to XPS
> asposepdftool
xps <PDF-file> [result-file]
Convert PCL to PDF
> asposepdftool
pcl2pdf <input-file> [PDF-file]
Convert PostScript to PDF
> asposepdftool
ps2pdf <input-file> [PDF-file]
Convert SVG to PDF
> asposepdftool
svg2pdf <input-file> [PDF-file]
Convert TeX to PDF
> asposepdftool
svg2pdf <input-file> [PDF-file]
Convert XPS to PDF
> asposepdftool
xps2pdf <input-file> [PDF-file]
Convert XSL-FO to PDF
> asposepdftool
xslfo2pdf <input-file> [PDF-file]