Commands tagged pdf

Adjust the --resolution and --mode as required (if these options are available for your scanner).

The size options (-x, -y, -imageheight, -imagewidth) are for US letter paper. For A4, I think the command would be:

Remove security restrictions from PDF documents using this very simple command on Linux and OSX. You need QPDF installed (http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/) for this to work.

Creates a PDF from multiple images. One page per image.

If you want a specific arbitrary order you can use {1,3,5,10,12}

* you may use jpg, tif etc

** if you do use jpg images you might want to add "-compress Zip" as suggested below to prevent from having the images from being re-compressed.

Useful if you want to reduce PDF file size using command line by ghostscript.

Put this code in a bash script. The script expects the PDF file as its only parameter.

It will add a header to the PDF containing the page numbers and output it to a file with the suffix "-header.pdf"

Requires enscript, ps2pdf and pdftk.

To quickly add some remark, comment, stamp text, ... on top of (each of) the pages of the input pdf file.

This sums up the page count of multiple pdf files without the useless use of grep and sed which other commandlinefus use.

See http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcrack/files/pdfcrack/pdfcrack-0.10/

For debian and ubuntu :

This command line will remove password from all PDF files in the current folder. It use qpdf.

In this example we extract pages 14-17

This is an expansion on a previous entry, which I've wrapped in a function and placed in my profile. The "$@" is a positional parameter, much like "$*", but the parameters are passed on intact, without interpretation or expansion; so you can simply call the function like this:

mergepdf *

This will output a merged PDF of all PDFs in the current directory. Alternatively, you can simply list them like so:

mergepdf 00.pdf 01.pdf 02.pdf ...

N.B. Passing a wildcard will merge all PDFs in the current directory in name order, e.g. 00.pdf 01.pdf aa.pdf ab.pdf

This will extract all DCT format images from foo.pdf and save them in JPEG format (option -j) to bar-000.jpg, bar-001.jpg, bar-002.jpg, etc.

Inspired by http://stefaanlippens.net/extract-images-from-pdf-documents

See man wget if you want linked files and not only those hosted on the website.

This example command fetches 'example.com' webpage and then fetches+saves all PDF files listed (linked to) on that webpage.

[*Note: of course there are no PDFs on example.com. This is just an example]

#4345 also works under windows

use imagemagik convert