qpdf

Versatile PDF transformation software.

• Extract pages 1-3, 5 and 6-10 from a PDF file and save them as another one:

qpdf --empty --pages {input.pdf} {1-3,5,6-10} -- {output.pdf}

• Merge (concatenate) all the pages of a list of PDF files and save the result as a new PDF:

qpdf --empty --pages {file1.pdf} {file2.pdf} {file3.pdf} -- {output.pdf}

• Merge (concatenate) given pages from a list of PDF files and save the result as a new PDF:

qpdf --empty --pages {file1.pdf} {1,6-8} {file2.pdf} {3,4,5} -- {output.pdf}

• Write each group of n pages to a separate output file with a given filename pattern:

qpdf --split-pages=n {input.pdf} {out_%d.pdf}

• Rotate certain pages of a PDF with a given angle:

qpdf --rotate={90:2,4,6} --rotate={180:7-8} {input.pdf} {output.pdf}

• Remove the password from a password-protected file:

qpdf --password={password} --decrypt {input.pdf} {output.pdf}

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