Pdf

Manipulate PDFs from the command line

To join, shuffle, select, etc. pdftk is a great tool:

$ pdftk *.pdf cat output all.pdf # Join PDFs together

$ pdftk A=in.pdf cat A5 output out.pdf # Extract page from PDF

You can also manipulate the content with cpdf:

$cpdf -draft in.pdf -o out.pdf # Remove images

$cpdf -blacktext in.pdf -o out.pdf # Convert all text to black color