Tuesday, October 28, 2014

pdftk in Mac OS X with tips

Download pdftk for Mac.

tips:

1. Split multi-page PDFs into single page PDFs
$ pdftk my_multi_page.pdf burst
$ pdftk my_multi_page.pdf burst output my_directory/page_%02d.pdf

2. Pull some pages out of a PDF but keep the rest
$ pdftk my.pdf cat 1-5 13-21 24-end output my_edited.pdf

3. Concatenate (that’s join!) multiple pdfs into one big pdf
$ pdftk part0.pdf part1.pdf cat output the_whole_book.pdf

4. Get all of the images and other attachments out of a PDF and put them in a folder
$ pdftk my.pdf unpack_files output ~/attachments_from_my_pdf/

5. Print stats and metadata about a PDF
$ pdftk my.pdf dump_data

6. Add a background watermark (or a foreground overlay) to a pdf

- For a background
$ pdftk my.pdf background bg.pdf output my_watermarked.pdf

- For an overlay
$ pdftk my.pdf stamp overlay.pdf output my_overlayed.pdf

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