pdfly

Install command: 
brew install pdfly

CLI tool to extract (meta)data from PDF and manipulate PDF files

https://pdfly.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

License: BSD-3-Clause

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/pdfly.json

Formula code: pdfly.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 0.5.1

Revision: 25

Depends on:

certifi 2026.7.22 Mozilla CA bundle for Python
cryptography 50.0.1 Cryptographic recipes and primitives for Python
libsodium 1.0.22 NaCl networking and cryptography library
openssl@3 3.6.4 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
pillow 12.3.0 Friendly PIL fork (Python Imaging Library)
pydantic 2.13.5 Data validation using Python type hints
python@3.14 3.14.7 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 3.0.7 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
rust 1.98.1 Safe, concurrent, practical language

Uses from macOS: m4 (build), libxml2, libxslt

Binaries: pdfly

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