marktodisco / pdfmerge

CLI Setup Using Anaconda/Miniconda

The following command create an Anaconda environment and installs the pdfmerge tool.

conda env create -f conda.yaml

The following command activates the virtual environment.

conda activate pdfmerge-dev

Basic Help

pdfmerge -h

usage: pdfmerge [-h] [-f [FILES [FILES ...]]] [-o OUTPUT_NAME] [-d INPUT_DIR]

Merge pdf files.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f [FILES [FILES ...]], --files [FILES [FILES ...]]
                        File names.
  -o OUTPUT_NAME, --output-name OUTPUT_NAME
                        Output file name.
  -d INPUT_DIR, --input-dir INPUT_DIR
                        Input directory.

Usage with File Paths

The following command merges file1.pdf and file2.pdf into a single PDF named merged.pdf.

pdfmerge -f file1.pdf file2.pdf -o merged.pdf

Usage with Directories

The following command merges all the PDF files in the my_pdf_files folder into a single PDF named merged.pdf.

pdfmerge -d my_pdf_files -o merged.pdf