qpdf
brew install qpdf
v12.3.2
Apache-2.0
C++ command-line tool for transforming, inspecting, and repairing PDF files while preserving content.
Why you might care
QPDF excels at PDF manipulation tasks that GUI tools struggle with: batch encryption, decryption, page splitting, merging, and structural repair—all scriptable and automatable. It's widely used in document processing pipelines and embedded in other tools (like Ghostscript) because it preserves PDF structure and metadata unlike lossy alternatives.
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Runtime dependencies
Build dependencies
Links
- https://qpdf.sourceforge.io/
- Brew formula source: Formula/q/qpdf.rb
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