SaralGyaan PDF Parser is a command-line PDF parsing tool which allows you to:-

1. Delete Pages from a PDF
2. Merge PDFs
3. Sort Pages of a PDF
4. Split a PDF

You can install SaralGyaan PDF Parser from PyPI: pip install sg-pdfparser The PDF Parser supports Python 3.6 and above.

The SaralGyaan PDF Parser is a command line application, named pdfparser. To start it you can simply open the terminal, go to the folder containing the PDF file(s) to be parsed and call the program:-

$ pdfparser
Welcome to PDF Parser

What do you want to do?

1. Delete Pages from a PDF
2. Merge PDFs
3. Sort Pages of a PDF
4. Split a PDF

Press ctrl + C to exit.
Enter your choice (1-4):

If you select the option to delete pages, it will ask for the filename followed by '.pdf'

Enter your choice (1-4): 1
Delete Pages from a PDF
Enter the name of file with extension(.pdf)

Make sure the pdf file exist at the location and once you provide a valid pdf file, it will give you two options:-

What do you want to do?
 1. Delete specific pages
 2. Keep Specific pages

Both the options accept comma separated values of pages or page ranges or both e.g. 1, 2, 3-5 or 1-2 or 2-3, 4-6. One, thing you need to know that if you use Keep specific pages and change the order like 1-2, 6-4, then it will re-arrange the pages too.

This options accepts comma separated file names and it will merge the files in the order, it is provided as an input.

Sort pages, give you three options

What do you want to do?
1. Reverse order of all the pages
2. Swap Pages
3. Move certain pages to a specific index

1. The first one, will simply reverse the order of the pages.
2. The second one will swap two pages, you can input multiple or single swaps e.g. 1-3, 2-7, 8-9, etc.
3. The third one will move the page to a certain page number (not index). It also accepts comma separated values. So 21-2 will move page number 21 to 2 and hence shifting the rest of the page to right.

This gives you two options:-

What do you want to do?
 1. Split all the pages
 2. Split specific pages

1. The first option will make n splits for n-paged PDF file.
2. The second one will split the pdf into the ranges or pages as provided. e.g. 1, 3, 9-22, will give three split files first page, third page and pages from nine to twenty two.

You can also check out our Usage Guide on Youtube.

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This repository is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.