pdfcrop 0.1.0

PDF cropping library and command-line tool with rendering-based bbox detection
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# pdfcrop

A Rust library and CLI tool for cropping PDF files with **rendering-based automatic bounding box detection**.

Inspired by the original [`pdfcrop`](https://ctan.org/pkg/pdfcrop) from TeX Live.

Web app using WASM available at [pdfcrop.github.io](https://pdfcrop.github.io).

## Features

- **Accurate bbox detection** - Renders PDF pages to detect visible content boundaries
- **Flexible margins** - Uniform or per-side margins
- **Manual override** - Specify exact crop regions
- **Library + CLI** - Use as a Rust library or standalone command-line tool
- **Pure Rust** - WASM-compatible, no external dependencies

## Quick Start

### CLI Usage

```bash
# Install
cargo install --path .

# Basic crop (auto-detect bbox)
pdfcrop input.pdf output.pdf

# With margins
pdfcrop --margins "10" input.pdf output.pdf

# Verbose mode to see detection details
pdfcrop --verbose input.pdf output.pdf

# Custom bbox
pdfcrop --bbox "50 50 500 700" input.pdf output.pdf

# Add content clipping (adds clipping path to stream - increases file size)
pdfcrop --clip input.pdf output.pdf

# Auto-shrink manual bbox to actual content (removes remaining margins)
pdfcrop --bbox "0 0 612 792" --shrink-to-content input.pdf output.pdf
```

### Library Usage

```rust
use pdfcrop::{crop_pdf, CropOptions, Margins};
use std::fs;

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let pdf_data = fs::read("input.pdf")?;

    let options = CropOptions {
        margins: Margins::uniform(10.0),
        verbose: true,
        ..Default::default()
    };

    let cropped = crop_pdf(&pdf_data, options)?;
    fs::write("output.pdf", cropped)?;

    Ok(())
}
```

## Examples

```bash
# Generate test PDFs with shapes and crop them
cargo run --example crop_shapes_pdf

# Download a real PDF and crop it
cargo run --example crop_online_pdf
```

## Development

```bash
# Build
cargo build --release

# Run tests
cargo test

# Format and lint
cargo fmt
cargo clippy
```

## How It Works

1. Renders PDF pages to bitmaps using [hayro](https://github.com/LaurenzV/hayro)
2. Scans pixels to find bounding box of visible content
3. Applies margins and sets the PDF CropBox
4. Multi-page PDFs processed in parallel with [rayon](https://github.com/rayon-rs/rayon)

## License

MIT OR Apache-2.0