Work with PDFs your way — split a combined sheet export into individual files, shrink a set before sending to a client, extract element data for a takeoff, or embed structured data for archiving. If you've ever gotten garbled text or wrong element IDs from a PDF tool on a Revit export, it's because most tools don't understand how Revit encodes its output. bim-pdf does.
PDF analysis and manipulation for AEC workflows. Zero dependencies — handles Revit's specific PDF encoding natively.
Revit exports PDFs with Adobe PDF Library 18.0.5 (PDF 1.6). Every visible element is wrapped in a BMC/BDC tagged content block encoding its ElementId. Text uses Type0 Identity-H encoding — standard extractors return garbage. bim pdf marked and bim pdf text handle both correctly.
| Verb | What it does |
|---|---|
bim pdf info <file> |
page count, version, producer, XMP, has_bim_tags |
bim pdf pages <file> |
per-page dimensions, OCG layers, sheet number labels |
bim pdf marked <file> |
extract BIM element tags (ElementIds) with bounds |
bim pdf text <file> |
text with coordinates, ToUnicode CMap decoded |
bim pdf page split <file> |
split combined export into per-page PDFs |
bim pdf page merge files... --out |
merge multiple PDFs |
bim pdf page collect <file> --pages 1,3,5-8 |
extract specific pages |
bim pdf page rotate/crop |
rotate pages or crop to bounding box |
bim pdf optimize <file> |
reduce file size without re-rendering |
bim pdf stamp add/remove |
watermark text or image |
bim pdf security encrypt/decrypt |
password protection |
bim pdf annot list/remove |
annotation management |
bim pdf form fields/fill/flatten |
AcroForm operations |
bim pdf attach list/extract/add/remove |
embedded file attachments |
bim pdf bookmark list/export/import |
outline/bookmark tree |
bim pdf enrich <file> sidecar |
join marked output with JSON lookup |
bim pdf package <file> metadata |
embed JSON as PDF/A-3 attachment (PDF–BIM Package) |
bim pdf render <file> |
rasterize pages to PNG/JPG (requires Ghostscript) |
bim pdf viewer <file> |
local browser viewer; click element → Revit zooms to it |
For agent use: /pdf/llms.txt