PDFTk, Free and Open Source PDF Editor and Creator (Command Line based)
You might be already know some softwares to create PDF, eg: Adobe Acrobat, GhostScript, PDFCreator, OpenOffice etc. You might be already know some softwares to edit PDF too, eg: Adobe Acrobat, Foxit PDF Editor.
Most of the PDF Editor softwares are proprietary and commercial. But i just found out that there is a reliable free and opensource PDF editor from accesspdf.com (used to be pdfhacks.com). It’s name is PDFTK.
I think i need not explain the function of this software, from the developer’s website, you can see this:
?If PDF is electronic paper , then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents.?
It’s features are:
- Merge PDF Documents
- Split PDF Pages into a New Document
- Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required)
- Encrypt Output as Desired
- Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data and/or Flatten Forms
- Apply a Background Watermark
- 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)
There are many samples of how to utilize pdftk. You are urged to see the examples since this software is CLI based.But since this software is open source, there are many third party developers, developing an GUI interface for Pdftk. You can try one of them is pdftkb which you can download it from http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/. Another GUI tool for PDFTK is http://pdf.paehl.de/ and http://www.mingw.org/. Click here to download pdftk directly.
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