PDFtk explained

PDFtk
Developer:Sid Steward
Latest Release Version:2.02
Latest Release Date:[1]
Programming Language:C++
Operating System:Cross-platform
Genre:PDF utility
License:Proprietary[2] / GPL

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). 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

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.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-version-history/ PDFtk Version History
  2. https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ PDFtk – The PDF toolkit
  3. Web site: Sharma . Shashank . 4 February 2021 . How To Manipulate PDF Files in Linux With PDFtk . 2021-04-20 . . en.
  4. Web site: Henry-Stocker. Sandra. 2021-03-01. Creating and merging PDFs on Linux. 2021-04-20. Network World. en.
  5. Book: Steward, Sid. PDF Hacks. 2004. O'Reilly Media, Inc. 978-1-4493-6220-1. 1st. Sebastopol, CA. 201. 58557987.
  6. Web site: Das. Ankush. 10 Best Linux PDF Editors You Can Use in 2020. 2021-04-20. It's FOSS. 24 September 2017 . en-US.
  7. Web site: Pdftk4all - Browse /Pdftk4all at SourceForge.net.