PDFtk

PDFtk
Developer(s)	Sid Steward
Initial release	July 14, 2004
Stable release	2.02 / July 24, 2013; 10 years ago
Written in	C++
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	PDF utility
License	Proprietary / GPL
Website	www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

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[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.

^ 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.

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 February 25, 2009 including a copy of PDFTK 1.41^[1]
PDFTK Builder, a GUI for Windows (GPL), last release 3.10.0 from July 13, 2018

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