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AWS Lambda Layer with PDFtk
https://github.com/inetsys/pdftk-aws-lambda
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AWS Lambda Layer with PDFtk
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/inetsys/pdftk-aws-lambda
- Owner: inetsys
- License: mit
- Created: 2019-02-07T09:54:49.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-10-19T15:21:34.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-08-02T15:07:15.226Z (6 months ago)
- Language: Makefile
- Size: 12.3 MB
- Stars: 22
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 6
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# PDFtk
[PDFtk Server](https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/) is a command-line tool for working with PDFs.
This project shows how to compile and deploy the `pdftk` binary as an AWS Lambda Layer, as well as a built version for the binaries ready to use.
Currently the included binaries under `bin` and `lib` were built for the **PDFtk 2.02** version.
# AWS Lambda Layer
[Lambda Layers](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/configuration-layers.html) is a new convenient way to manage common dependencies between different Lambda Functions.
The following command will create a well-structured layer of this package:
```cmd
git clone https://github.com/inetsys/pdftk-aws-lambda.git
cd pdftk-aws-lambda
make
```
The resulting ZIP file `pdftk-aws-lambda.zip` can be uploaded to the AWS Lambda Layers console.
## Build binary
In order to compile the `pdftk` binary, the following steps were followed:
1. Start an EC2 instance with CentOS 6. Amazon Linux is not suitable as it has not the _gcj_ compiler ([see AWS Forum post](https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=96919))
2. Install some devtools, download the PDFtk source and build the binaries
```cmd
sudo yum update -y
sudo yum install gcc gcc-java libgcj libgcj-devel gcc-c++ wget unzip
curl -SsLO https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk-2.02-src.zip
unzip pdftk-2.02-src.zip
cd pdftk-2.02-dist/pdftk
make -f Makefile.Redhat
sudo make -f Makefile.Redhat install
```
This process outputs two files:
1. The main binary file is located at `/usr/local/bin/pdftk`
2. A shared library at `/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.10` that must be copied at some location defined in the environment variable **LD_LIBRARY_PATH**
According to [AWS Documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/current-supported-versions.html), there are two paths exported as environment variables directly related to AWS Lambda Layers (as they unzip under `/opt`)
* **LD_LIBRARY_PATH** includes `/opt/lib`
* **PATH** includes `/opt/bin`
The ZIP file resulting from executing `make` in this package will store both binary files under the corresponding directories, so it is ready to use system wide.
### Usage
The Layer is independent from the Lambda Function Runtime, so it should be available for any of them.