pdftk

Transitional package for pdftk, a tool for manipulating PDF documents
  https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/
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  15 reviews



PDFtk is no longer available in Debian. This package enables an upgrade to pdftk-java, a port of PDFtk to Java. This package can be safely removed.

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:
- 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 PDF on metrics, including metadata and bookmarks
- 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)
Latest reviews
5
maijuin 6 years ago

works great

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amzer_zo 7 years ago

Handy command line utility

5
davagui 8 years ago

This program is greatly usefu! It's command line only, so open a Terminal and type "pdftk --help" or "man pdftk" and you'll have the options explained.

2
ghuehl 9 years ago

Can't say anything about it. Unable to start application after installation due to missing starter.

1
amanarya 10 years ago

couldnt find it after installation

4
fotonix 10 years ago

Can be useful. I tried it to fill in a PDF form, but the file seems to be a mess.

5
slinkeepie 11 years ago

Used it to merge 2 PDF pages into 1 page, worked great!

2
adnanalbuali 11 years ago

doesn't work on mint. Instructions are for Windows and MAC only

2
chthonic 11 years ago

command line onlyz!!

5
linuxfan 12 years ago

Only easy way to combine PDFs that I know of: pdftk "input1.pdf" "input2.pdf" cat output 'output.pdf'

4
MajorGrubert 12 years ago

Le seul programme du genre qui fait tout ce qu'il doit faire parmi ceux que j'ai essayés, en particulier reconstruit les liens internes dans les pdf (renvois aux notes de bas de page par exemple) ce que ne font pas les autres que j'ai essayés mais attention ne fonctionne qu'en ligne de commande

4
rogerslurchers 13 years ago

Use from command line, see the man page

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ben_le_sphinx 13 years ago

no viewver

2
pilot824 13 years ago

Never installed properly after trying 5 times. Couldnt find it in the Menu, even using search

5
limulus 13 years ago

VERY powerful and easy to use PDF tools that can do many tasks you would otherwise need Acrobat for.