Presse - fast PDFs compression and merging in your terminal

[u/amphioctopus]

Recently shipped a new version of my PDFs manipulation CLI, now supporting PDFs merging.

presse press file.pdf          # compress
presse merge a.pdf b.pdf       # merge

Runs entirely locally — no network, nothing leaves your machine. I benchmarked it against Ghostscript /ebook over 19 real-world PDFs:

- 7× faster (0.135s vs 0.927s mean)

- Better compression on pre-optimized documents where Ghostscript inflates.

Supports batch processing, custom output paths, JPEG quality tuning (`--quality`), and optional compression on merge.

Yesterday I released pre-built binaries for Linux (musl), macOS (Intel + Apple Silicon), and Windows.

If you wanna check the code: https://github.com/SimonBure/presse
Feedback welcome!

See you guys online...

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User: amphioctopus, Flair: Command Line Interface, Title: Presse - fast PDFs compression and merging in your terminal

Recently shipped a new version of my PDFs manipulation CLI, now supporting PDFs merging.

presse press file.pdf          # compress
presse merge a.pdf b.pdf       # merge

Runs entirely locally — no network, nothing leaves your machine. I benchmarked it against Ghostscript /ebook over 19 real-world PDFs:

- 7× faster (0.135s vs 0.927s mean)

- Better compression on pre-optimized documents where Ghostscript inflates.

Supports batch processing, custom output paths, JPEG quality tuning (`--quality`), and optional compression on merge.

Yesterday I released pre-built binaries for Linux (musl), macOS (Intel + Apple Silicon), and Windows.

If you wanna check the code: https://github.com/SimonBure/presse
Feedback welcome!

See you guys online...

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