PDF Toolkit

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:

  • Merge PDF Documents
  • Split PDF Pages into a New Document
  • Rotate PDF Pages or Documents
  • Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required)
  • Encrypt Output as Desired
  • Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data or XFDF Data and/or Flatten Forms
  • Apply a Background Watermark or a Foreground Stamp
  • Report on PDF Metrics such as Metadata, Bookmarks, and Page Labels
  • Update PDF Metadata
  • Attach Files to PDF Pages or the PDF Document
  • Unpack PDF Attachments
  • Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages
  • Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams
  • Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible)

Requirements
GCJ

Installation

cd /extra/src
wget http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk-1.44-src.zip
unzip pdftk-1.44-src.zip
cd pdftk-1.44-dist/pdftk

Build the program according to your OS:

  • Mac OS X
    make -f Makefile.MacOSX

    An easier way to install on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) is to download a pre-built package from fredericiana

  • CentOS
    make -f Makefile.RedHat

Install it:

make install

Perl Module
PDF::Tk

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