Aggressive, safety-first PDF compressor for scanned documents. CLI tool: PDF in, compressed searchable PDF out.
In the CLI tools & terminal space, hankpdf takes a focused approach. It focuses on reducing the size of scanned PDF documents while making them searchable via a command-line tool. hankpdf is an open-source project aimed at engineers. The project is open source (Apache-2.0). hankpdf is available on the web and the command line.
It is developed by hank-ai, and the product first shipped in 2026. The project is developed in the open on GitHub with 55 commits in the last 90 days. Among its 5 catalogued features are PDF compression, OCR support, and searchable output.
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