This command is useful for searching through a whole folder worth of pdf files. Show Sample Output
Creates a PDF file where each page will be a layer from de original TIFF file.
You can apply many other filters and transformations.
convert multi_layer.tif -page a4 -compress jpg multi_page.pdf
To set the page size
convert multi_layer.tif -crop 590x790+20+30 -compress jpg multi_page.pdf
To include only a portion of the image (discard first horizontal 20 pixels and first vertical 30 pixels, include the next 590 horizontal and 790 vertical pixels)
convert multi_layer.tif -delete 1,3,5-10 -compress jpg multi_page.pdf
Discard mentioned layers
This will crop each page of the PDF by 10mm left, 11cm bottom, 22pts right, and nothing from the top.
Some PDF viewers don't manage form fields correctly when printing. Instead of treating them as transparent, they print as black shapes.
Rearrange pdf document coming from a simplex document feed scanner, feeded first with odd pages, then with even pages from the end. Needs pdftk >1.44 w/ shuffle. Similar to http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/7965/pdf-simplex-to-duplex-merge where there are 2 separate documents, odd and even
grep pdf files easily
This assumes there is only one result. Either tail your search for one result or add | head -n 1 before the closing bracket. You can also use locate instead of find, if you have locate installed and updated
See http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcrack/files/pdfcrack/pdfcrack-0.10/
For debian and ubuntu :
sudo apt-get install pdfcrack
You should install qpdf. That way, you can have a copy without any password required.
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