Poppler Utils

A set of PDF manipulation scripts are distributed as the poppler-utils package. The scripts are all based on the xpdf project and codebase.

See also the close alternatives, pdfjam or psutils.

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Installation

To join PDF documents, try:

pdfunite INPUT1 [INPUT2 ..] OUTPUT

Note that all input files must be unencrypted.

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.

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:

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

pdftoppm -png INPUT OUTPUT-PATTERN

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