📄 PDF Merger & Splitter Tool

A versatile web application built with Streamlit and PyPDF2, offering a suite of functionalities to manage your PDF documents, including merging, splitting, rotating, encrypting, and reading PDF information and text.

✨ Features

This tool provides the following key functionalities:

• 🔗 Merge PDFs: Combine multiple PDF files into a single document.
• ✂️ Split PDF: Divide a single PDF into individual pages, allowing you to download each page separately.
• 🔄 Rotate PDF: Rotate all pages of a PDF document by 90, 180, or 270 degrees.
• 🔐 Encrypt PDF: Password-protect your PDF files for enhanced security.
• 📖 PDF Reader (Info + Text + Metadata): Upload a PDF to:
  • View its total page count.
  • Extract and display its metadata (Author, Title, Creation Date).
  • Extract and display text content from all pages or just the first page.

🚀 Technologies Used

• Streamlit: For building the interactive web-based user interface.
• PyPDF2: A Python library used for all PDF manipulation tasks (reading, writing, merging, splitting, rotating, encrypting, and extracting text/metadata).
• Python: The core programming language for the application logic.

⚙️ Setup and Installation

Follow these steps to set up and run the PDF Merger & Splitter Tool locally:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone [https://github.com/mandirashetty/PDF-tool-kit.git](https://github.com/mandirashetty/PDF-tool-kit.git)
   cd PDF-tool-kit

2. Create a virtual environment (recommended):

   python -m venv venv

3. Activate the virtual environment:

   • On macOS/Linux:

     source venv/bin/activate

   • On Windows:

     .\venv\Scripts\activate

4. Install the required libraries:

   pip install streamlit PyPDF2

5. Run the Streamlit application:

   streamlit run main.py

   This command will open the application in your web browser, typically at http://localhost:8501.

💡 How to Use

1. Select an Option: Use the dropdown menu at the top to choose the desired PDF operation (Merge PDFs, Split PDF, Rotate PDF, Encrypt PDF, or PDF Reader).
2. Upload File(s): Depending on the selected option, use the "Upload file" or "Upload files" button to select your PDF document(s).
3. Perform Action: Click the corresponding button (e.g., "Merge", "Split", "Rotate", "Encrypt PDF", "Read PDF") to initiate the operation.
4. Download/View Output:
   • For merge, rotate, and encrypt operations, a download button will appear to save the processed PDF.
   • For splitting, individual download buttons will appear for each split page.
   • For PDF Reader, the extracted information, metadata, and text will be displayed directly on the page.

🤝 Contributing

Feel free to fork the repository, make improvements, and submit pull requests. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

📄 License

This project is open-source and available under the MIT License.