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Guides for PDF Command-line Tools

Tools & Utilities can help you work with a variety of document processing commands using a command line interface.

Our CLI tools are sufficient for simple use-cases, but if you would like more customization options, or if you'd like to wrap the call as part of a REST API endpoint, we recommend our SDK.

CLI Tools

DocPub is an easy-to-use, multi-platform command-line program that can be used for high-quality conversion from a wide range of document formats to XOD (the WebViewer format), HTML, EPUB, XPS, and PDF.

PDF2Word is an easy-to-use, stand-alone command-line application that provides users with an efficient means of converting PDF documents to Microsoft Word and RTF formats.

PDF2HTML is an easy-to-use, stand-alone command-line application that provides users with an efficient means of converting PDF documents to HTML files.

PDF2Image is command-line program for high-quality conversion from PDF to various image file formats (e.g. PNG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF and RAW).

PDF2Text is a command-line software for high-quality and efficient text extraction from PDF. PDF2Text can be used to extract text from any PDF document as Unicode or as structured XML.

XPSConvert is a multi-platform command-line software for high-quality copversion from XPS or OpenXPS to PDF and image formats (PNG, TIFF, BMP, and JPEG).

PDF2XPS is a multi-platform stand-alone command-line application for high-quality and relaible convertsion from PDF to XPS (XML Paper Specification). The high-quality conversion maintains the original document quality and preserves hyperlinks, colors and fonts.

PDF2SVG is a multi-platform command-line application for high-quality conversion from PDF to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics).

PDF PageMaster is a command-line utility for splitting, editing, merging and securing PDF documents.

PDF/A Manager is a PDF/A (ISO 19005, PDF/A-1,2,3,4) validation and conversion software, available as a command-line tool on multiple platforms.

PDFSecure is a multi-platform command-line utility used to secure PDF documents as well as remove, or change security settings on existing PDFs.

PDF CosEdit is a low-level tool for PDF inspection and manipulation. It allows users to create, browse, and edit PDF and other Cos-based documents at object level.

Platforms

All of the tools below leverage code from the same codebase as our Apryse SDK, which is supported on:

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