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pdftk - A useful tool for manipulating PDF documents
Stoney J. writes:
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If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic stapler-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. Keep one in the top drawer of your desktop and use it to:Homepage: http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk
- Merge PDF documents
- Split PDF pages into a new document
- Decrypt input as necessary (password required)
- Encrypt output as desired
- Burst a PDF document into single pages
- Report PDF on metrics, including metadata and bookmarks
- Uncompress and re-compress page streams
- Repair corrupted PDF (where possible)
Stoney J. writes:
If you work with PDFs much, or would like to, pdftk is a must have. pdftk is a swiss-army-knife for PDF files. You can "burst" a PDF into its constituent pages. You can concatenate page ranges from different PDFs. The list goes on and on.
More information on this package can be found on the Debian web site.
(If there is a package you would like to see featured here, go to the userinfo page and follow the directions there to submit your entry.)
