mergeit

A fast, local PDF merging utility written in C++. An offline alternative to web services like ilovepdf .This is Less bloated and is accessible from the terminal

Dependencies

Install the QPDF development library for your operating system.

macOS

brew install qpdf 

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S qpdf

Debian / Ubuntu

sudo apt update && sudo apt install libqpdf-dev pkg-config

Compilation and Execution

The repository consists of the following structure:

Merge-it/
├── contents/
│   ├── file1.pdf
│   └── file2.pdf
└── src/
    └── MergeingEngine.cpp
    └── Makefile
    

Navigate to the main project root directory (Merge-it/) in your terminal before running the compilation commands.

cd src
sudo make install
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Usage

Since mergeit is installed globally into your system's PATH, you can run it from any directory in your terminal.

To merge multiple PDFs, pass the input files sequentially and specify your desired output filename as the final argument:

mergeit "file1.pdf" "file2.pdf" "file3.pdf" "file-n.pdf" #file-n is the nth file
enclose the file name in double quotes if the filename has whitespace .

TO-DO

• Provide a Makefile for automated builds
• Handle file naming conflicts automatically
• Support merging more than two PDFs sequentially

You have reached the end ThankYou :)