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.
| Developer(s) | Sid Steward |
|---|---|
| Initial release | July 14, 2004 |
| Stable release | 2.02
/ July 24, 2013[1] |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | PDF utility |
| License | Proprietary[2] / GPL |
| Website | www |
Java implementation edit
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 edit
References edit
- ^ PDFtk Version History, 2.02 – July 24, 2013.
- ^ a b PDFtk – The PDF toolkit.
- ^ February 2021, Shashank Sharma 04 (4 February 2021). "How To Manipulate PDF Files in Linux With PDFtk". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Henry-Stocker, Sandra (2021-03-01). "Creating and merging PDFs on Linux". Network World. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ^ Steward, Sid (2004). PDF Hacks (1st ed.). Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-4493-6220-1. OCLC 58557987.
- ^ Das, Ankush (24 September 2017). "10 Best Linux PDF Editors You Can Use in 2020". It's FOSS. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
External links edit
- Official website
- PDF Chain, a GUI for Linux (GPL)
- An older GUI, working under Windows and most Linux distributions (GPL)
- PDFTK4ALL, a GUI for Windows (GPL), last release 0.2.1.0 beta from including a copy of PDFTK 1.41[1]
- PDFTK Builder, a GUI for Windows (GPL), last release 3.10.0 from
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