pdftty

A PDF viewer for the terminal.

ANSI renderer	CACA renderer

Installation

$ pip install pdftty

Make sure to also install libcaca if you want to use the CACA rendering engine.

Usage

$ pdftty --help
Usage: pdftty [OPTIONS] <file>

  View PDFs in the terminal.

Options:
  --page INTEGER               Page of PDF to open.
  --render-engine [ANSI|CACA]  Which engine to use to render PDF page as text.
  --help                       Show this message and exit.

The following controls can be used to navigate the PDF:

• [left]/[right]: previous/next PDF page
• [-]/[+]: zoom out/in
• [=]: reset zoom
• [left]/[right]/[up]/down: move zoom window (when zoomed in)