PDF-Manager

All in one PDF Manager App A cross-platform, efficient PDF manager built using Rust + Tauri. It can parse, merge, split, and extract pages from PDF files with minimal memory usage and exceptional performance.

Features

• Parse PDFs: Quickly extract text, metadata, and analyze PDF structures.
• Merge PDFs: Combine multiple PDF files into one.
• Split PDFs: Break PDFs into separate pages or defined page ranges.
• Extract Pages: Export individual pages into standalone PDFs.

Supported Platforms

• ✅ macOS
• ✅ Windows
• ✅ Linux
• ✅ iPadOS (via WebAssembly/Web App deployment)

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Prerequisites

Ensure these tools are installed:

• Rust (stable channel recommended)
• Node.js (LTS recommended)
• pnpm or npm (pnpm recommended for speed)

Check installations:

rustc --version
node -v
pnpm -v  # or npm -v

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Installation and Setup

Clone the repository and navigate to the directory:

git clone https://github.com/pbse/PDF-Manager.git
cd PDF-Manager

Install frontend dependencies:

pnpm install  # or npm install

Install Rust dependencies (managed automatically by cargo):

cd src-tauri
cargo build

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Development

Run the application locally in development mode:

pnpm tauri dev  # or npm run tauri dev

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Building and Distributing

Create optimized production builds for your platform:

pnpm tauri build  # or npm run tauri build

The built app will appear in:

• macOS: src-tauri/target/release/bundle/dmg/
• Windows: src-tauri/target/release/bundle/msi/
• Linux: src-tauri/target/release/bundle/deb/ or AppImage

Platform targets and scripts

Desktop (macOS/Windows/Linux):

• macOS (run on macOS): pnpm run build:mac
• Windows (run on Windows): pnpm run build:win (requires MSVC toolchain)
• Linux (run on Linux): pnpm run build:linux (requires WebKit2GTK and related deps per Tauri docs)

Mobile (requires platform SDKs + Rust targets + Tauri mobile tooling):

• iOS/iPadOS (on macOS with Xcode, Rust targets aarch64-apple-ios + x86_64-apple-ios, and cocoapods):
  • Dev: pnpm run dev:ios
  • Build: pnpm run build:ios (signing/provisioning required for device/TestFlight)
• Android (with Android SDK/NDK, Java 17, Rust targets aarch64-linux-android + armv7-linux-androideabi):
  • Dev: pnpm run dev:android
  • Build: pnpm run build:android (configure keystore for release)

Notes:

• Cross-compiling desktop apps is best done on the target OS (or via CI runners) because of native toolchain requirements.
• Tauri mobile commands (tauri ios/android ...) assume you’ve run the corresponding tauri ios init / tauri android init and have the platform SDKs installed.

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Code Structure Overview

• src/ui/src: User interface built with Svelte (recommended), or alternatively React/Vue.
• src-tauri/: Tauri app configuration.
• src-tauri/src/pdf/: Core Rust logic for efficient PDF manipulation.

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Dependencies

• Rust PDF manipulation: lopdf
• Tauri: Official Docs
• UI Framework: Svelte, Vue.js, or React (choose one according to preference)

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Contributing

Contributions welcome! Follow standard GitHub workflows:

• Fork repository, make changes, open pull request.

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License

This project is open-sourced under the MIT License. See LICENSE file for details.

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Maintainer

• Prashant Bansal
• GitHub: pbse