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Install pdfly with Homebrew

CLI tool to extract (meta)data from PDF and manipulate PDF files. Version 0.5.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-09-13.

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Additional install commands

macOS

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brew install pdfly

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overview

Package summary

CLI tool to extract (meta)data from PDF and manipulate PDF files

Commands and aliases

  • pdfly

history

Project history and usage

pdfly is a BSD-licensed, pure-Python command-line application for inspecting, extracting, creating, signing, and manipulating PDF files.

Project history

The official documentation is copyrighted from 2023 by the pdfly contributors and places the project under the py-pdf organization. The project uses a documented governance model and is built on the pypdf ecosystem.

Adoption history

pdfly is distributed through Python-oriented installation methods such as pip, pipx, and uv, and is also packaged by Homebrew. Its command-oriented design makes pypdf functionality accessible without writing Python code.

How it is used

Commands cover concatenating and removing pages, rotation, compression, metadata inspection, text and image extraction, booklet layouts, conversion to PDF, and signature creation or verification.

The project recommends pip for installation and notes that application-oriented installers such as pipx or uv are often convenient. Individual subcommands expose their own --help output.

Why package nerds care

pdfly is useful to package users who want a maintained, scriptable PDF toolbox from the pypdf community. It combines numerous focused operations under one Python CLI rather than requiring separate scripts for each task.

Timeline

  • 2023: Copyright period for the official pdfly documentation begins.
  • 2026: Official documentation describes the 0.5.1 command set.

Related projects

  • pdfly is maintained within the py-pdf organization and uses pypdf for PDF processing. The official documentation explicitly states that it is unrelated to pdfly.net and gopdfly.com.

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for pdfly. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Installs with 7 runtime dependencies.
  • Build metadata lists 2 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
pdflycliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-09-19
manager version0.5.1
manager updated2026-09-13
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://pdfly.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:pdfly
Version0.5.1
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/pdfly
Homepagehttps://pdfly.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Upstream docshttps://pdfly.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
Source archivehttps://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/48/ae/70f161c80b3f39d8fe4ff784c78045225820d10375c81c2097c0e85ac0fc/pdfly-0.5.1.tar.gz
Last updated2026-09-13T07:15:04Z
Pulseupdated
Dependenciescertifi, cryptography, libsodium, openssl@3, pillow, pydantic, python@3.14
Build dependenciespkgconf, rust
Uses from macOSlibxml2, libxslt
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namepdfly
Version Scheme0
Revision24
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

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Related tools

  • openssl@3Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • python@3.14Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • pkgconfBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • rustBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

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