Add decryption to the cat operation

py-pdf / pdfly

CLI tool to extract (meta)data from PDF and manipulate PDF files

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Add decryption to the cat operation #61

Open EmperorArthur opened 1 month ago

EmperorArthur commented 1 month ago

I recently needed to decrypt a PDF file, and found the program would just error. This resolves that issue.

Ads an optional password parameter to the "cat" operation. Allowing decryption.
Makes decryption errors more readable for end-users.

ouqilbo commented 1 month ago

Love this. Started using pdfly a week ago and I was about to stop because I had to manipulate a password protected pdf

Lucas-C commented 3 weeks ago

Hi Thank you for your contribution @EmperorArthur 👍 I think this PR needs to be rebased on main. And pdfly/cat.py needs to be pretty-formatted with black