could this be called from the command line?

[Kreijstal]

it'd be nice, because it only depends on node

[mojoaxel]

@Kreijstal Sorry i've overlook this! This is a very nice idea!

Do you have any idea how a interface could look? Should it only be possible to merg two documents or multibles at the same time? What about page number?

Let's discuss this idea here any further!

[mojoaxel]

Here is a proposal:

pdf-merger-js --out=merged.pdf input1.pdf[1,2] input2.pdf input3.pdf[3-6]

So this would merge
page 1 and 2 of input1.pdf
with input2.pdf
and with pages 3 to 6 of input3.pdf
and save everything to merged.pdf

[mojoaxel]

For very basic merging you could use pdf-merger-cli.

[Kreijstal]

For very basic merging you could use pdf-merger-cli.

could we merge these with the original? very cool by the way

[mojoaxel]

Here is another proposal I like. This would also keep urls valid:

pdf-merger-js --out=merged.pdf input1.pdf#1,2 input2.pdf input3.pdf#3-6

[sabine33]

Please look at this package, It does work exactly as @mojoaxel wanted.

[sabine33]

Pleas have a look at it.

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/merge-the-pdfs
• https://github.com/sabine33/pdf-merger

[mojoaxel]

Here is a overview about existing solutions

merge-the-pdfs

$ merge-the-pdfs --folder ~/Downloads/pdfs --output filename.pdf --files abc.pdf#1,2 apple.pdf#3,4
$ merge-the-pdfs --output filename.pdf --files abc.pdf#1,2 apple.pdf#3,4

pdf-merger-cli

$ npx pdf-merger-cli out.pdf input1.pdf input2.pdf
$ npx pdf-merger-cli out.pdf input*.pdf

merge-pdf-cli

$ merge-pdf inputfile-1.pdf inputfile-2.pdf
$ Successfully merged pdfs.  Output : merged-file.pdf

[mojoaxel]

Looking at the existing solutions I would propose the following cli:

Simple inputs

pdf-merger-js --output merged.pdf input1.pdf input2.pdf

Select pages

pdf-merger-js --output merged.pdf input1.pdf#1-3 input2.pdf#3,4,6

Glob inputs

pdf-merger-js --output merged.pdf ./**/input*.pdf

URL inputs

pdf-merger-js --output merged.pdf https://example.org/input1.pdf#1-2 https://example.org/input2.pdf#3-6

[mojoaxel]

This has been implemented with #130 🎉

[mojoaxel]

The command-line-interface is available since v5.1.1 🚀