Commands tagged pdf

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

Joins two pdf documents coming from a simplex document feed scanner. Needs pdftk >1.44 w/ shuffle.

More pdftk examples: http://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-cli-examples/

If you skip this part:

you'll get a very lo-res image.

This is an example of the usage of pdfnup (you can find it in the 'pdfjam' package). With this command you can save ink/toner and paper (and thus trees!) when you print a pdf.

This tools are very configurable, and you can make also 2x2, 3x2, 2x3 layouts, and more (the limit is your fantasy and the resolution of the printer :-)

You must have installed pdfjam, pdflatex, and the LaTeX pdfpages package in your box.

Quick and dirty version. I made a version that checks if a manpage exists (but it's not a oneliner). You must have ps2pdf and of course Ghostscript installed in your box.

Enhancements appreciated :-)