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This guide covers essential PDF processing operations using Python libraries and command-line tools. For advanced features, JavaScript libraries, and detailed examples, see reference.md. If you need to fill out a PDF form, read forms.md and follow its instructions.

| Merge PDFs | pypdf | writer.addpage(page) | | Split PDFs | pypdf | One page per file | | Extract text | pdfplumber | page.extracttext() | | Extract tables | pdfplumber | page.extracttables() | | Create PDFs | reportlab | Canvas or Platypus | | Command line merge | qpdf | qpdf --empty --pages ... | | OCR scanned PDFs | pytesseract | Convert to image first |

| Fill PDF forms | pdf-lib or pypdf (see forms.md) | See forms.md |