Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files
Mon 13 October 2025
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Project documentation: pdfly.readthedocs.io
pdfly is the youngest project of the py-pdf organization.
It has been created by Martin Thoma in 2022.
It's simply a CLI tool to manipulate PDF files, written in Python and based on the fpdf2 & pypdf libraries.
I'm a maintainer of the project 🙂
What can it do?
It has meany features, including:
display PDF metadata using pdfly meta and pdfly pagemeta commands.
Example:
$ pdfly meta minimal-document.pdf
Operating System Data
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