PDF Command Line Tools

pdfclitools.md

• PDFTK (https://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-cli-examples/)
• PDFJam (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/firth/software/pdfjam/)
• Pandoc (https://pandoc.org/)

Remove bookmarks/table of contents from a PDF:

pdftk A=file1.pdf cat A1-end output nobookmarks.pdf

Concatenate multiple PDF files:

pdftk \
    file1.pdf \
    file2.pdf \
    output combined.pdf

Rotate single page:

pdftk in.pdf cat 1south output out.pdf

Combine four slides on one page:

pdfnup --nup 2x2 --suffix print example.pdf

Add an empty page between two pages:

pdfjam example.pdf 1,{},2 --nup 1x2 --suffix 2up --outfile exampleprint.pdf

Create a new PDF with only selected pages from the input PDF:

pdftk A=file.pdf cat A16 A18 A20-22 A171-end output output.pdf

Create a PDF file from Markdown:

pandoc example.md --metadata geometry="left=3cm,right=3cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm" -o example.pdf