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PDFtk

PDFtk is a toolkit for manipulating Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS. It comes in three versions: PDFtk Server, PDFtk Free (freeware) and PDFtk Pro. It is able to concatenate, shuffle, split and rotate PDF files. It can also show and update metadata. Both CLI and GUI versions of PDFtk are available.

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PDFtk
DeveloperSid Steward
Initial releaseJuly 14, 2004 (2004-07-14)
Stable release
2.02 / July 24, 2013 (2013-07-24)1
Written inC++
Operating systemCross-platform
TypePDF utility
LicenseProprietary2 / GPL
Websitewww.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ Edit this at Wikidata

PDFtk (short for PDF Toolkit) is a toolkit for manipulating Portable Document Format (PDF) documents.34 It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS.5 It comes in three versions: PDFtk Server (open-source command-line tool), PDFtk Free (freeware) and PDFtk Pro (proprietary paid).2 It is able to concatenate, shuffle, split and rotate PDF files. It can also show and update metadata. Both CLI and GUI versions of PDFtk are available.

Java implementation

pdftk-java is a port of PDFtk into Java6 which is developed by Marc Vinyals and GPL licensed. The initial release was on December 30, 2017.

See also

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References

References

  1. PDFtk Version History, 2.02 – July 24, 2013.
  2. "PDFtk – The PDF toolkit". PdfLabs.com.
  3. Sharma, Shashank (February 4, 2021). "How To Manipulate PDF Files in Linux With PDFtk". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  4. Henry-Stocker, Sandra (March 1, 2021). "Creating and merging PDFs on Linux". Network World. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  5. Steward, Sid (2004). PDF Hacks (1st ed.). Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-4493-6220-1. OCLC 58557987.
  6. Das, Ankush (September 24, 2017). "10 Best Linux PDF Editors You Can Use in 2020". ItsFOSS.com. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
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