pystitcher stitches your PDF files together, generating nice customizable bookmarks for you using a declarative input in the form of a markdown file. It is written in pure python and uses PyPDF3 for reading and writing PDF files.

Installation

You can install it easily using pipx:

pipx install pystitcher

The Wiki has Alternative Installation Instructions.

Description

pystitcher is a command line tool, with very few cli options:

usage: pystitcher [-h] [--version] [-v] [--cleanup | --no-cleanup] spine.md output.pdf

Stitch PDF files together

positional arguments:
  spine.md              Input markdown file
  output.pdf            Output PDF file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -v, --verbose         log more things
  --cleanup, --no-cleanup
                        Delete temporary files (default: True)

Given this input:

existing_bookmarks: remove
title: Complete Guide to the Personal Data Protection Bill
author: Medianama
keywords: privacy, surveillance, personal data protection
subject: Personal Data Protection Bill
# A Complete Guide to the Personal Data Protection Bill

- [Cover](cover.pdf)

# The Bills

- [Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019](https://example.com/2019-bill.pdf)
- [Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018](https://example.com/2018-bill.pdf)

# Other key reading material

- [Srikrishna Committee Report](2.a.pdf)
- [Dvara Research's Personal Data Protection Bill](2.b.pdf)
- [MP Shashi Tharoor's Data Protection Bill](2.c.pdf)
- [MP Jay Panda's Data Protection Bill](2.d.pdf)
- [SaveOurPrivacy.in bill](2.e.pdf)
- [TRAI recommendations on privacy](2.f1.pdf)
- [Comments on TRAI reco