NAME

App::PDFUtils - Command-line utilities related to PDF files

VERSION

This document describes version 0.002 of App::PDFUtils (from Perl distribution App-PDFUtils), released on 2017-04-22.

SYNOPSIS

This distribution provides tha following command-line utilities related to PDF files:

• add-pdf-password

• remove-pdf-password

FUNCTIONS

add_pdf_password

Usage:

 add_pdf_password(%args) -> [status, msg, result, meta]

Password-protect PDF files.

This program is a wrapper for qpdf to password-protect PDF files (in-place). This is the counterpart for remove-pdf-password.

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

• backup => bool (default: 1)

  Whether to backup the original file to ORIG~.

• files* => array[filename]

• password* => str

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

Return value: (any)

remove_pdf_password

Usage:

 remove_pdf_password(%args) -> [status, msg, result, meta]

Remove password from PDF files.

This program is a wrapper for qpdf to remove passwords from PDF files (in-place).

The motivation for this program is the increasing occurence of financial institutions sending financial statements or documents in the format of password-protected PDF file. This is annoying when we want to archive the file or use it in an organization because we have to remember different passwords for different financial institutions and re-enter the password everytime we want to use the file. (The banks could've sent the PDF in a password-protected .zip, or use PGP-encrypted email, but I digress.)

You can provide the passwords to be tried in a configuration file, ~/remove-pdf-password.conf, e.g.:

 passwords = pass1
 passwords = pass2
 passwords = pass3

or:

 passwords = ["pass1", "pass2", "pass3"]

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

• backup => bool (default: 1)

  Whether to backup the original file to ORIG~.

• files* => array[filename]

• passwords => array[str]

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

Return value: (any)

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-PDFUtils.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-PDFUtils.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-PDFUtils

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

add-pdf-password.

remove-pdf-password.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2017 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm App::PDFUtils

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install App::PDFUtils