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 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 0.5.1

Revision: 6

Depends on:

certifi 2026.1.4 Mozilla CA bundle for Python
cryptography 46.0.4 Cryptographic recipes and primitives for Python
libsodium 1.0.21 NaCl networking and cryptography library
openssl@3 3.6.1 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
pillow 12.1.0 Friendly PIL fork (Python Imaging Library)
pydantic 2.12.5 Data validation using Python type hints
python@3.14 3.14.2 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 2.5.1 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
rust 1.93.0 Safe, concurrent, practical language

Analytics:

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pdfly 581
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pdfly 2
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pdfly 1,570
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pdfly 1,569
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pdfly 3,804
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pdfly 3,804
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