I Merged 50 PDFs in 10 Seconds. Here's The CLI That Did It.

I Merged 50 PDFs in 10 Seconds. Here's The CLI That Did It. Last month I had to consolidate 50 monthly reports into a single document. Each report was a separate PDF file: January_Report.pdf February_Report.pdf March_Report.pdf ... (47 more files) I needed them all in one file, in order, maintaining formatting. Manual process (GUI tools like Adobe): Open Adobe Acrobat File → Create → Combine Files Click 50 individual files one by one (takes 2-3 minutes just to select) Wait for processing (~2 minutes) Export final PDF (~1 minute) Total time: 5-7 minutes for 50 PDFs Using my CLI: python pdf_merger.py --input reports/ --output merged_report.pdf 10 seconds total. The difference between 5-7 minutes and 10 seconds is the difference between "I have time to do this" and "This is literally instant." The Problem PDF Merging Is Trying To Solve You have PDFs scattered everywhere. Business: Combining monthly reports, quarterly documents, annual statements Legal: Merging contract pages, combining ev