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 ✅
macOS on
Intel		 sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 0.5.1

Revision: 20

Depends on:

certifi 2026.5.20 Mozilla CA bundle for Python
cryptography 48.0.0 Cryptographic recipes and primitives for Python
libsodium 1.0.22 NaCl networking and cryptography library
openssl@3 3.6.2 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
pillow 12.2.0 Friendly PIL fork (Python Imaging Library)
pydantic 2.13.4 Data validation using Python type hints
python@3.14 3.14.5 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 2.5.1 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
rust 1.95.0 Safe, concurrent, practical language

Analytics:

Installs (30 days)
pdfly 399
pdfly --HEAD 2
Installs on Request (30 days)
pdfly 399
pdfly --HEAD 2
Build Errors (30 days)
pdfly 0
Installs (90 days)
pdfly 1,724
pdfly --HEAD 8
Installs on Request (90 days)
pdfly 1,723
pdfly --HEAD 8
Installs (365 days)
pdfly 5,543
pdfly --HEAD 15
Installs on Request (365 days)
pdfly 5,541
pdfly --HEAD 15