Bala Priya C Details 5 Python Scripts for PDF Automation

1 articles · Updated · KDnuggets · Jun 10

Five command-line Python scripts automate routine PDF work across single files and batches, covering merging, splitting, text and table extraction, watermarking, redaction, and metadata inventory.
pypdf underpins most file and page operations, while pdfplumber adds layout-aware extraction, reportlab generates stamp layers, and pymupdf handles permanent text redaction rather than visual masking.
The merge-split tool can combine folders in configurable order or break files by ranges, every N pages, or specific page numbers, preserving metadata from the first input file in merge mode.
Extraction outputs text to TXT or Markdown and tables to CSV or Excel, while the inventory script records page count, file size, dates, author, encryption status, and whether pages contain searchable text.
The scripts are designed to leave originals unchanged, generate reports on results or redactions, and reduce repetitive manual PDF handling that becomes slow and error-prone at scale.