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pdftk_snippets.sh
# merge all pdf files from a directory to a single pdf file
pdftk *.pdf cat output out.pdf
# reverse page order of a pdf file
PDFTK_PAGES=$(pdftk in.pdf dump_data | grep NumberOfPages | sed "s/^.*: //")
pdftk in.pdf cat $PDFTK_PAGES-1 output out.pdf
# Strip metadata in pdf
PDFTK_FILE=in.pdf
pdftk $PDFTK_FILE dump_data | sed -e 's/\(InfoValue:\)\s.*/\1\ /g' | pdftk $PDFTK_FILE update_info - output out.pdf
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