PDF editing on Linux CLI
Merge PDF
You can easily merge two or more PDF's to one on Linux CLI - private and secure, without having the risk that any suspicious webservices crawls your data.
1st. option:
Therefore install the package poppler-utils
.
sudo apt install poppler-utils
Then use pdfunite
:
pdfunite <inputfile-1> <inputfile-2> [<inputfile-x>] <final-file>
2nd. option:
Otherwise you can use pdftk
:
sudo apt install pdftk
With this command structure:
pdftk <inputfile-1> <inputfile-2> cat output <final-file>
Paritally sourced from linuxopsys.com - Merge PDF
Rotate PDF
It is also easy to rotate a PDF from CLI. Therefore install pdftk
from the upper section.
→ Then use this command to rotate clockwise:
pdftk <inputfile-1> cat 1east end output <final-file>
→ To rotate anti-clockwise use this command:
pdftk <inputfile-1> cat 1west end output <final-file>
By replacing e.g. 1east
with other cardinal directions, it is also possible to change a page by 180°.
Delete page from PDF
It is also easy to delete the last page from a PDF via CLI. Therefore also install pdftk
from the upper section.
→ Then use this command to delete the last page:
pdftk <inputfile-1> cat 1-r2 output <final-file>