PDF Utils Build PDF workflows directly in Flow-Like. PDF Utils provides a broad set of nodes for inspecting, editing, splitting, merging, cleaning, and extracting data from PDF files without leaving your flow. The package is designed around FlowPath : every PDF input is passed as a FlowPath, and every generated PDF or extracted file is written to a FlowPath destination. The filename is already part of the FlowPath, so nodes do not ask for separate filename fields. What You Can Do Inspect Documents Read core PDF details such as page count, PDF version, file size, object count, encryption state, metadata presence, page boxes, fonts, images, bookmarks, annotations, links, attachments, form fields, and blank-page candidates. Work With Pages Create new PDFs from selected pages, delete pages, merge files, rotate pages, crop or set page boxes, remove blank pages, reorder pages, reverse page order, duplicate pages, insert pages from another PDF, replace page ranges, and split documents by ranges, chunk size, or bookmark sections. Extract and Search Text Extract text from full documents or page ranges, return per-page text records, count words and characters, search with literal text or regular expressions, and export extracted text to Markdown, JSON, or CSV. Manage Metadata and Cleanup Read, write, or remove document information metadata. Read and remove XMP metadata. Remove JavaScript, automatic actions, annotations, links, bookmarks, attachments, and form field definitions. Use the sanitize node for common cleanup of active content and identifying metadata. Security Basics Check whether a PDF is encrypted, encrypt with standard password security, decrypt with a password, and inspect permission flags such as printing, copying, annotation, form filling, and assembly permissions. Extract Embedded Content List and extract embedded file attachments. List image XObjects and extract their encoded image streams to destination FlowPaths for downstream processing. Good Fits Automating document intake checks Splitting large PDFs into workflow-ready chunks Merging report packets or document bundles Removing metadata, JavaScript, links, forms, annotations, or attachments Extracting text for search, routing, summaries, or indexing Reading PDF structure for validation and audit workflows Preparing selected pages as new PDFs What To Expect PDF Utils works best with parseable, standards-aligned PDFs. Text extraction depends on the text data actually present in the PDF; scanned image-only PDFs usually need OCR before useful text can be extracted. Text replacement is best-effort because PDF text is often stored in encoded, fragmented content streams. Image extraction returns the embedded image stream bytes as stored in the PDF. It does not render pages or convert images to a normalized output format. Current Limits This package does not currently include page rendering, thumbnails, OCR, HTML/Office-to-PDF conversion, PDF/A conversion, digital signing, accessibility validation, redaction, watermarking, or form filling. Those workflows require a renderer, OCR engine, conversion stack, signing stack, or a fuller PDF appearance editing layer. Included Node Areas Inspect Pages Text Metadata Annotations and links Images Attachments Forms Security and cleanup Optimization Publisher and License Published by Rheosoph GmbH. Licensed under either Apache-2.0 or MIT, at your option.

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