pdfmb

Merge PDF files with bookmarks.

All the work is done by the excellent library pikepdf.

Installation

You can install this package via pip.

pip install pdfmb

Features

• merge PDFs from a list into a new pdf
• add PDFs from a list to an existing pdf
• merge all PDFs from a folder into a new pdf
• add all PDFs from a folder to an existing pdf
• option to conserve or flatten the folder structure in the bookmark outline
• existing PDF files are not modified
  • the add and add_from_folder functions create a new PDF at the same location with a timestamp

Usage

from pathlib import Path
import pdfmb

pdfmb.merge(
    pdfs_to_merge=Path("example pdfs").rglob("*.pdf"),
    output_folder=Path("output"),
)

pdfmb.add(
    pdfs_to_add=Path("example pdfs").rglob("*.pdf"),
    existing_pdf=Path("example pdfs/file1.pdf"),
)

pdfmb.merge_from_folder(
    source_folder=Path("example pdfs"),
    output_folder=Path("output"),
)

pdfmb.add_from_folder(
    source_folder=Path("example pdfs"),
    existing_pdf=Path("example pdfs/file1.pdf"),
    add_flat_hierachy=True,
)