Installation

Download

Get the latest binary here.

Required go version for building: go1.20 and up

Using Go Modules

$ git clone https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu
$ cd pdfcpu/cmd/pdfcpu
$ go install
$ pdfcpu version

Using Go Install

$ go install github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu/cmd/pdfcpu@latest

Using Homebrew (macOS)

$ brew install pdfcpu
$ pdfcpu version

Using DNF/YUM (Fedora)

(maybe not current)

$ sudo dnf install golang-github-pdfcpu
$ pdfcpu version

Run in a Docker container

$ docker build -t pdfcpu .
# mount current host folder into container as /app to process files in the local host folder
$ docker run -it -v "$(pwd)":/app pdfcpu validate a.pdf