PDFtk Command
In this article I created a guide how to combine, joint, merge multiple and split pdf in ubuntu using terminal with simple commands. The small software that we can use is PDFtk.
Install PDFtk Ubuntu
To be able to use the PDFtk command in the Ubuntu terminal, we must install it with the command:
sudo apt install pdftkIf successful you will get output like this:
neon@linux:~$ sudo apt install pdftk
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libapache-pom-java libbcprov-java libcommons-lang3-java
libcommons-parent-java pdftk-java
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libbcprov-java-doc libcommons-lang3-java-doc
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libapache-pom-java libbcprov-java libcommons-lang3-java
libcommons-parent-java pdftk pdftk-java
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Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.2-1) …Install Another Distros
If you want to install it to a distro other than ubuntu, here are the commands:
Arch Red Hat, Fedora & CentOS paru -S pdftk
## or ##
yay -S pdftksudo yum install epel-release
sudo yum install pdftk
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sudo dnf install epel-release
sudo dnf install pdftk
Merge or Join PDF Command
To make things easier, let’s try to merge several pdfs. I have 2 pdf with name test1.pdf and test2.pdf. To merge the both use the command:
pdftk test1.pdf test2.pdf cat output mergetest.pdfYou will get the result of merged pdf with name mergetest.pdf. If you want to merge all existing pdfs, the command to use is:
pdftk *.pdf cat output mergeall.pdfYou will get the mergeall.pdf of all existing pdfs. The naming of the output pdf can be changed as desired.
Split PDF Command
Then how to split the pdf using pdftk? For example we have a mergeall.pdf file which consists of two pages and we want to split it into 2 files. The command is:
pdftk mergeall.pdf burstSo, pdftk will divide into several pages according to the number of pages in the combined file. If you want to see more of the available commands, please read man.
I hope this article Merge Split PDF Ubuntu Using Terminal PDFtk Command can help you solve pdf problems that exist on your Ubuntu Linux Distro.
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