I have a pdf document with over 200 duplicate pages among the total 900 of the document. When there is a duplicate, it appears immediately after the original. Maybe with pdftk the job can be done, but I need some way to find out the duplicates...

I have got a PDF file with many tomes in it. Because it contains a lot (>5,000) of pages I want to split it. I have used pdftk like this:

pdftk input.pdf cat 487-2987 output second_tome.pdf

It works, but somehow pdftk doesn't put index in the output file. Because the content has many chapters I would like it to keep index, so I could quickly skip to a chapter in my PDF viewer. I tried gs, but it behaves similar to pdftk: it doesn't write index. And works very slow. I tried qpdf, which **do** keep the index, but it puts the *entire* index of the input PDF, which results in the output file having information of all old contents. Also, if (like in the example above) I want to separate a range of pages, the "first" page in the output PDF will not start from 1. Is there any way to do a split with an index?

I have a directory of jpg files that are scans of my handwritten notes. How do I convert them to a single pdf file that has the filenames as bookmarks? (I eventually also want to add ocr. As mentioned online, we can convert the .jpg files to a .pdf using img2pdf .jp --output combined.pdf, and then we can add ocr using ocrmypdf combined.pdf combined_ocr.pdf. My question is mainly about how to also make sure the pdf file has bookmarks (created from filenames) so that the document is easy to navigate.)

I need to convert 1K pdf files to doc on a debian server. I can convert a PDF to word using libreoffice commandline: libreoffice --headless --invisible --convert-to doc Sample-doc-file-100kb.pdf Or using soffice: soffice --nocrashreport --nologo --nolockcheck --nofirststartwizard --invisible --headless --convert-to doc Sample-doc-file-100kb.pdf The main problem with the above two commands, is that the doc file doesn't include images in the pages, it only contains the formatted text. Is there a better way to convert pdf to doc, including also the images present in the pdf? I am not interested in web services like zamzam, I need to do that from command-line on the server. Thank you.

When I scan documents that are landscape-oriented, the output PDF files are portrait and so all the PDF viewers display the scanned documents in portrait. **From the command line, how do you rotate a PDF file 90 degrees?** I tried searching and found a bunch of solutions but I had trouble finding what looked like an authoritative solution that uses a stable and robust Linux/Unix tool. ---- footnote For example, here is a sampling of some of the haphazard solutions I found: - "just use Adobe Acrobat Pro to rotate the file and then save the file" - "use pdfjam" - "use PDFtk" - "use ${PROGRAM_NAME} from Poppler" - "use ImageMagick's convert" -- but then all the comments were very negative and stating "the image quality is ruined" - "open the file in a PDF viewer, then rotate, then print using a PDF printer like cutePDF or PDF printer or etc" - "use ${PROGRAM_NAME}", then I searched for "${PROGRAM_NAME}" and there is something about "Fedora removed ${PROGRAM_NAME} because of licensing issues"

I have a PDF book that I want to remove a few pages from to reduce the file size. My normal solution to this didn't work, and when I tried others they introduced new problems: - I usually use PDF Arranger for this, which is normally a great tool. However, when I try it on this particular document I get an error I've never seen before (invalid literal for int() with base 8: b'228') - I can use pdftk to remove the pages, but the file size of the resultant document is more than double that of the original, which defeats the purpose of removing the pages in the first place - I can also use the Print to File command to remove the correct pages, but then I get a huge margin around the pages, with a smaller font and more whitespace, making the file harder to read As you can see, it's surprisingly tricky to remove pages while otherwise leaving the document the same. Any advice on other solutions, or figuring out what's going on with these, would be much apreciated!

I have a pdf file, let's call it A, composed of a lot of pages. Then I have a second pdf file, let's call it B, composed of a single page. My goal is to have an output file, let's call it O, with the following pattern: O = A O = B O = A O = B O = A O = B O = A O = B ... In other words, I want to interleaving the pages of A with page B. To give you a background, file A contains the slides of a course I've attended, I created file B with a single page filled by horizontal lines. The resulting output file will allow me to place my notes on the right side of the slides (since I'm going to print two pages per sheet). I'm able to do this importing every single page in LibreOffice, but I'm looking for a script (perhaps pdftk?) to easily run against different files.

I am trying to make a kind of dossier out of various pngs,jpgs and single page pdf images. It has to be a single pdf file, but it doesn't matter that results into something conveniently printable. As such, each page can be whatever size and format whatsoever. I have seen answers here that show how to make them into nice same-size pages, or center them, or such, but my interest is exactly the opposite. The order is already solved as the filenames are nicely numbered. If I try with pdfunite (after a convert), it makes them fit into letter paper pages. Using convert directly also makes them fit them into letter paper pages, but it crops images that are to wide.

I have a lot of uni-slides where a list of bullet points gets shown page by page until one slide contains all points. For the sake of explaining a topic this is quite nice but for learning I would like to remove all the pages leading up to the overview. Then I wouldn't have to mindlessly scroll the pdf up and down when searching something. Are there any tools that support this operation/ has someone written a script that can delete those pages? **TLDR:** *PDF pages often only add one piece of additional information and remove none. What can I use to keep the page with all information?* I tried the answer from this [question](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/204040/extract-completed-slides-of-a-slide-show-pdf) from 2015, but it failed on all pdfs I tried with "Input Errors".

You know when you have a pdf, which is a scan of a document and it's a really huge file, because it just stores the picture of the scanned document? And there are OCR tools which can help you to make a proper document which just stores the text? Well, I need the reverse of that! Let's say I have a perfect pdf document generated with pdflatex and I need to turn it into such a "huge" pdf, which looks exactly the same when printed on paper (with a certain dpi value), but is just a picture of the original. My initial idea is to turn the pdf into a series of JPGs and then back into a PDF, but perhaps there is some canonical way for that? --- In case you wonder why I would want to do such a thing: I'm currently stuck with a network printer, which is not maintained by me, and which randomly drops characters in printed files! So until someone figures out what's wrong there, I want this as workaround.

For concatenating presentations of the same topic I use pdftk (e. g. pdftk stones\ in\ england.pdf stones\ from\ namibia.pdf cat output nice\ stones.pdf). Files with diferent frame sizes but same aspect ratio are just stringed together without any respect to the frame sizes. How can I concatenate multiple *.pdf with one resulting size for all frames (in the same aspect ratio)?

I want to concatenate a bunch of PDFs but for printing purposes I would prefer that empty pages are added to each document that have an odd number of pages. Can I do this with PDFTK?

I have a PDF file that needs a blank page inserted into it every so often. The pattern is unpredictable, so I need a command that will allow me to fit one in wherever necessary. How can i do this?

I want to exctact pages from a pdf document such that all pages are extracted except the first one and the last one. Code but (end-1) does not work, nor 2-end-1 pdftk 1.pdf cat 2-(end-1) output output.pdf

I have been trying to file my taxes by filling out the individual forms, which are fillable PDFs on the IRS's website, and concatenating them using the pdfunite command:

pdfunite f1040.pdf f1040s1.pdf f1040s3.pdf f1040sa.pdf Fed_2022_all.pdf

However, that results in the saved form values from each form being saved only on the first page. For instance, Form 1040 is two pages, and the form fields on page 2 are rendered uneditable. How can I prevent this?

I'm using Arch linux, Openbox window manager, and bash. Everything is up to date with the latest versions. Can anyone tell me why I can't get the "$page_range" variable to show up within pdftk when I specify a couple of page ranges as 3-5 7-9? When I specify only one page range 3-5 in my yad pop-up box everything works as it should. pdftk does allow more than one page range to be defined within the command. Indeed when I type the command out on the command line without using bash variables within it, pdftk works as expected taking the page ranges 3-5 7-9. Just not when I contain this value within the variable "$page_range". All I want to do is extract page ranges 3-5 and 7-9 from file /home/$USER/my_file.pdf into another pdf file using the variable $page_range to define my ranges. Here is my simple script. #!/bin/bash # collect the values with yad extract_values=$(yad --form --width=200 \ --title="Enter the page ranges you wish to extract" \ --text="\n\n Enter the page ranges you wish to extract\n as eg 301-302\n or 301-302 305-306\n for grouping" \ --field="Page range":text "11-13 21-23" \ --button="Cancel!gtk-close":2 \ --button="Edit script":1 \ --button="Submit":0) # strip out the values from the string page_range=$(echo $extract_values | cut -d '|' -f 1) echo $page_range # produce a unique file extender page_range_slugify="$(echo "$page_range" | sed 's/ /_/g')" echo;echo $page_range_slugify echo # specify the filename f=/home/$USER/my_file.pdf # get path and file name without pdf extension fz="${f%.*}" # check everything is as it should be yad --text="\n page range = $page_range\n page_range_slugify = $page_range_slugify\n file + path without file extension = $fz\n\n" # below works only for one range but will not expand for two page ranges pdftk "$f" cat "$page_range" output "$fz"_"$page_range_slugify".pdf # below takes one range only as above #pdftk "$f" cat "$(printf %s "$page_range")" output "$fz"_"$page_range_slugify".pdf # below takes both ranges when ranges are directly placed within the command #pdftk "$f" cat 3-5 7-9 output "$fz"_"$page_range_slugify".pdf

Say I start off from a PDF document, say of 12 pages, viewed with **evince**. To produce another PDF of 6 sheets, with a page setup of two pages per side, I normally use the "Print to File" device listed in the ^P dialogue window. This works out pretty neatly. I would like to translate this operation for the command line. - To my understanding, this is not an operation that **pdftk** can do. Please cross check. - The command lp, which would accept the option -o number-up=2, does not recognize any device called "Print to File", which indeed does not show up in lpstat -p -d. - I am aware of the post What is “Print to File” and can it be used from command line? . I have installed **cups-pdf** whereby a new printer named PDF is acknowledged. However, the print quality of a simple text file is way too raw (for example, no print margins to start with). Moreover, if I reprint an existing PDF file on this device, say lp -p PDF existing.pdf, evince can't even manage to open that copycatted output, while this is not the case with the "Print to File" way. - I had a look at man evince. At the bottom, it touches upon a few print preview options and redirects to a GNOME-developer project page . Admittedly I am not able to make sense and use of it. Is there actually a way to combine the flexibility of the command line with the print quality that I obtain from that "Print to File" option in the GUI evince? My test case, again, would be to create from the command line a PDF out of a source document printed with two pages per sheet. Thanks for thinking along.

I'm using pdfimages to extract images from a PDF File . I've counted at last 10 images. But the program will only extract 4. pdfimages -all file.pdf i Generates -rw-rw-r-- 1 victor victor 61389 Jul 14 21:48 i-000.png -rw-rw-r-- 1 victor victor 88 Jul 14 21:48 i-001.png -rw-rw-r-- 1 victor victor 5226 Jul 14 21:48 i-002.png -rw-rw-r-- 1 victor victor 95657 Jul 14 21:48 i-003.png Am I missing some setting? How can I extract all images?

I have a directory *foo* containing .pdf files named with pattern *X01, X02, ...*, each two pages long. I want to combine them to a new .pdf, named "_all_YY-MM-DDTHHMMSS.pdf_" that will contain the file names as bookmarks. I used these two commands. While the first one works well, $ gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dAutoRotatePages=/None -sOutputFile=all_$(date +"%FT%H%M%S").pdf X*.pdf the second one, based on [this answer](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/72457/372935) fails. $ pdftk all_2023-07-12T094706.pdf update_info {ls | grep X*} output out.pdf grep: X}: No such file or directory grep: output: No such file or directory grep: out.pdf: No such file or directory Done. Input errors, so no output created. I was trying to grep the ls for the filenames starting with _X*_, in order to exclude the new combined .pdf names _all..._. How do I get this to work, preferably by adding update_info to the first command? I'm aware of solutions like [this](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/709643/372935) , but they look rather tedious.

I have a job interview on Tuesday, and I need to correct a typo "obestiy" [sic] to "obesity" in a PDF from LaTeX that I cannot recompile due to missing images and tables. I have tried 1. qpdf general.audience.pdf --object-streams=disable expanded.pdf,
as suggested by https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17220/how-to-view-and-edit-the-code-of-a-pdf-file/109177#109177 , but when I try to edit the file, "obestiy" doesn't appear, so this method didn't work. 2. https://askubuntu.com/questions/803850/find-and-replace-with-on-pdf-file-from-command-line suggests that I can use qpdf thus:
pdftk general.audience.pdf output uncompressed.pdf uncompress
but then the word "obestiy" [sic] never shows up. Perhaps there is/are some characters in between the letters, explaining why "obestiy" doesn't show up? How can I edit the PDF to correct the typo? 3. LibreOffice Draw distorts and ruins all of the text in the file, making the PDF unusable. Maybe there is a way for LibreOffice Draw to *not* alter the fonts?