Super Snappy Tools

Assalamu Alaikum all,

Here I will try to list and update the tools those seems like a magic on their field.
Comments and suggestions are welcome.
So here goes…

poppler-utils

It is a collection of command-line utilities built on Poppler’s library API, to manage PDF and extract contents:

  • pdfattach – add a new embedded file (attachment) to an existing PDF
  • pdfdetach – extract embedded documents from a PDF
  • pdffonts – lists the fonts used in a PDF
  • pdfimages – extract all embedded images at native resolution from a PDF
  • pdfinfo – list all information of a PDF
  • pdfseparate – extract single pages from a PDF
  • pdftocairo – convert single pages from a PDF to vector or bitmap formats using cairo
  • pdftohtml – convert PDF to HTML format retaining formatting
  • pdftoppm – convert a PDF page to a bitmap
  • pdftops – convert PDF to printable PS format
  • pdftotext – extract all text from PDF
  • pdfunite – merges several PDFs

Source: here.
Other resources:
https://poppler.freedesktop.org/
Windows installation
installation through Docker

SoX – Sound eXchange

SoX is the Swiss Army Knife of sound processing utilities. It can convert audio files to other popular audio file types and also apply sound effects and filters during the conversion.

http://sox.sourceforge.net/
Installation idea: https://arielvb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/docs/commandline/sox.html

csvkit

csvkit is a suite of command-line tools for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats.

https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
Basic tutorial: here.

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