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PDFtk
Developer(s)Sid Steward
Initial releaseJuly 14, 2004 (2004-07-14)
Stable release
2.02 / July 24, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-07-24)[1]
Written inC++
Operating systemCross-platform
TypePDF utility
LicenseProprietary[2] / GPL
Websitewww.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ Edit this at Wikidata

PDFtk (short for PDF Toolkit) is a toolkit for manipulating Portable Document Format (PDF) documents.[3][4] It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS.[5] It comes in three versions: PDFtk Server (open-source command-line tool), PDFtk Free (freeware) and PDFtk Pro (proprietary paid).[2] It is able to concatenate, shuffle, split and rotate PDF files. It can also show and update metadata. Both CLI and GUI versions of PDFtk are available.

Java implementation

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pdftk-java is a port of PDFtk into Java[6] which is developed by Marc Vinyals and GPL licensed. The initial release was on December 30, 2017.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ PDFtk Version History, 2.02 – July 24, 2013.
  2. ^ a b PDFtk – The PDF toolkit.
  3. ^ Sharma, Shashank (February 4, 2021). "How To Manipulate PDF Files in Linux With PDFtk". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  4. ^ Henry-Stocker, Sandra (March 1, 2021). "Creating and merging PDFs on Linux". Network World. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  5. ^ Steward, Sid (2004). PDF Hacks (1st ed.). Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-4493-6220-1. OCLC 58557987.
  6. ^ Das, Ankush (September 24, 2017). "10 Best Linux PDF Editors You Can Use in 2020". ItsFOSS.com. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
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