cpdf
CLI to manipulate existing PDF files in a variety of ways. More information: https://www.coherentpdf.com/cpdfmanual/cpdfmanual.html.
- Select pages 1, 2, 3 and 6 from a source document and write those to a destination document:
cpdf {{path/to/source_document.pdf}} {{1-3,6}} -o {{path/to/destination_document.pdf}}
- Merge two documents into a new one:
cpdf -merge {{path/to/source_document_one.pdf}} {{path/to/source_document_two.pdf}} -o {{path/to/destination_document.pdf}}
- Show the bookmarks of a document:
cpdf -list-bookmarks {{path/to/document.pdf}}
- Split a document into ten-page chunks, writing them to
chunk001.pdf
,chunk002.pdf
, etc:cpdf -split {{path/to/document.pdf}} -o {{path/to/chunk%%%.pdf}} -chunk {{10}}
- Encrypt a document using 128bit encryption, providing
fred
as owner password andjoe
as user password:cpdf -encrypt {{128bit}} {{fred}} {{joe}} {{path/to/source_document.pdf}} -o {{path/to/encrypted_document.pdf}}
- Decrypt a document using the owner password
fred
:cpdf -decrypt {{path/to/encrypted_document.pdf}} owner={{fred}} -o {{path/to/decrypted_document.pdf}}
- Show the annotations of a document:
cpdf -list-annotations {{path/to/document.pdf}}
- Create a new document from an existing one with additional metadata:
cpdf -set-metadata {{path/to/metadata.xml}} {{path/to/source_document.pdf}} -o {{path/to/destination_document.pdf}}
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