pdfly is a CLI tool to manipulate PDF files, written in Python and based on the fpdf2 & pypdf libraries. It can:

- display PDF metadata using pdfly meta and pdfly pagemeta commands
- combine files into new PDF documents: it can extract specific pages & merge documents (pdfly cat); selectively remove pages (pdfly rm); convert images to PDF documents (pdfly x2pdf); and even compress documents (pdfly compress) or build booklets (pdfly 2-up & pdfly booklet).
- pull out specific content from PDF files: pdfly extract-images & pdfly extract-annotated-text.
- fix manually-edited PDF documents, so that they can be opened in a PDF viewer again!

Save Safari website as PDF (with syncing cookies).

Swift script

When it comes to PDF software, people have very different needs. Some casual users may want nothing more than the ability to make a few notes and occasionally combine documents, while those working in legal offices are very, very particular about how their PDFs look on screen and when printed, with details like fonts, bolding and italics being very important. The corporate king of PDF editors is Adobe Acrobat Professional but it has a number of drawbacks. It's expensive, huge and like all adobe products invasive and hard to get rid of. I am not a fan.

I am very much a fan of PDF Gear, available for free on the App Store. It's worth a look for anyone at any level who needs document conversion, merging, separation or merging. If you can overcome dependance on the bloated expensive monstrosity from Adobe, you might end up very pleased.

Docling bundles PDF document conversion to JSON and Markdown in an easy, self-contained package.

Useful to save web pages as local markdown files, for search

Also useful to output PDF from pages!