Pdftk has been been around for many years, and does exactly the same things. Why reinvent the wheel?

https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

QuantumNomad_ 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It makes sense to me. They made a PDF library for Python first. Having a PDF library for your preferred language is a good thing.

And it’s natural to then build a cli tool on top of the library they already made.

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moopie 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s not open-source, so practically the question is equivalent to “why reinvent the wheel by creating libreoffice when there’s a perfectly good Microsoft office suite out there”

	▲	mkesper an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The server component is under GNU GPL: https://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-license/

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alanbernstein 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This was my first thought, but after reading the comments here, I see I had no idea how many other alternatives already existed, so why not add another one.