---
title: "Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/spotlight-on-pdfly-the-swiss-army-knife-for-pdf-files-e9jhhkj8i
source_url: https://chezsoi.org/lucas/blog/spotlight-on-pdfly.html
type: article
source: "Planet Python"
published: 2025-10-13T10:48:05.393Z
updated: 2025-10-13T10:48:28.309Z
tags: ["python", "open-source", "cli"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 83
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files

**[Planet Python](https://daily.dev/sources/planetpython)** · 3 min read · 83 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

pdfly is a Python-based CLI tool for PDF manipulation, offering features like metadata display, page extraction and merging, document compression, image extraction, text extraction, and PDF signing. The newly released version 0.5.0 adds digital signature verification, annotated page extraction, and page rotation capabilities. Built on fpdf2 and pypdf libraries, it provides a comprehensive solution for common PDF operations through simple command-line interfaces.

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**@asmundur** · 6 upvotes

> A "Swiss Army knife"?
>
> So. Bunch of tools bundled together in a way so it's really inconvenient to use every single one of them?  🤡

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