= Poppler Utilities =

'''Poppler Utilities''' are a set of PDF manipulation scripts. The scripts are all based on the xpdf project and codebase.

See also the close alternatives, [[LaTeX/Pdfjam|pdfjam]] or [[PostScriptUtilities|psutils]].

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== Installation ==

Most [[Linux]] distributions offer a `poppler-utils` package.

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== Usage ==



=== Joining Documents ===

To join PDF documents, try:

{{{
pdfunite INPUT1 [INPUT2 ..] OUTPUT
}}}

Note that all input files must be unencrypted.



=== Splitting Documents ===

To separate a PDF document into one for each page, try:

{{{
pdfseparate INPUT OUTPUT-PATTERN
}}}

Output files will be named as OUTPUT-PATTERN-001.pdf.



=== Extracting Images ===

To extract images from a PDF file, try:

{{{
pdfimages -png INPUT OUTPUT-PATTERN
}}}

Output files will be named as OUTPUT-PATTERN-001.png. Alternate formats available include:

||'''Format''' ||'''Option''' ||
||JPEG         ||`-j`         ||
||JPEG2000     ||`-jp2`       ||
||TIFF         ||`-tiff`      ||
||JBIG2        ||`-jbig2`     ||
||CCITT        ||`-ccitt`     ||



=== Converting to Images ===

To render each page of a PDF into an image, try:

{{{
pdftoppm -png INPUT OUTPUT-PATTERN
}}}

||'''Format''' ||'''Option''' ||
||JPEG         ||`-jpeg`      ||
||CMYK JPEG    ||`-jpegcmyk`  ||
||TIFF         ||`-tiff`      ||

Note that resolution is 150x150 by default. This can be set using `-r N` or `-rx N -ry N`.

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== See also ==

[[https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/poppler/pdfimages.1.en|pdfimages(1)]]

[[https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/poppler/pdfseparate.1.en|pdfseparate(1)]]

[[https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/poppler/pdftoppm.1.en|pdftoppm(1)]]

[[https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/poppler/pdfunite.1.en|pdfunite(1)]]



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