PDFtk

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.

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

Java implementation

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

References
  1. PDFtk Version History, 2.02 – July 24, 2013.
  2. PDFtk – The PDF toolkit.
  3. February 2021, Shashank Sharma 04 (4 February 2021). "How To Manipulate PDF Files in Linux With PDFtk". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
  4. Henry-Stocker, Sandra (2021-03-01). "Creating and merging PDFs on Linux". Network World. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
  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 (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 including a copy of PDFTK 1.41[1]
  • PDFTK Builder, a GUI for Windows (GPL), last release 3.10.0 from


  1. "Pdftk4all - Browse /Pdftk4all at SourceForge.net".
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