presse

PDF processing CLI tool. Compress and merge PDF directly in your terminal. Convert images to pdf. Better compression and 7x faster than ghostscript.

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PDF processing CLI tool. Compress and merge PDF directly in your terminal. Convert images to pdf. Better compression and 7x faster than ghostscript.

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_rwo·Oct 26, 2026

been using https://github.com/SimonBure/presse for all my pdf needs for a while - works great thus far (not affiliated); simple cli is in most case all you will ever need

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saientifik·Aug 8, 2026Submission

Show HN: Presse – a Rust CLI tool to compress and merge PDFs

Compression, merging and image conversion to PDF in one command-line tool. Benchmarked against ghostscript on the same corpus (~20 docs), compression was 7x faster, and 19% better compression (ghostscript even inflated some already-optimized docs). The compression route extracts images, then lossy-compress them. This yield most of the gains compared to bytes optimization and artifact collection. Presse uses lopdf and image crates. Understanding and handling multiple image color-spaces was the most confusing part for me, starting from almost zero knowledge about Rust (learning project!). CMYK images not yet supported, some malformed PDF don't get properly compressed as well.

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