qpdf

Versatile PDF transformation software. More information: <https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/qpdf.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install qpdf
Ubuntu
apt-get install qpdf
Alpine
apk add qpdf
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S qpdf
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install qpdf
CentOS
yum install qpdf
Fedora
dnf install qpdf
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install qpdf
OS X
brew install qpdf
Raspbian
apt-get install qpdf
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/qpdf
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/qpdf qpdf powered by Commando

Versatile PDF transformation software. More information: <https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf>.

  • Extract pages 1-3, 5 and 6-10 from a PDF file and save them as another one:
    qpdf --empty --pages input.pdf 1-3,5,6-10 -- output.pdf
  • Merge (concatenate) all the pages of a list of PDF files and save the result as a new PDF:
    qpdf --empty --pages file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf -- output.pdf
  • Merge (concatenate) given pages from a list of PDF files and save the result as a new PDF:
    qpdf --empty --pages file1.pdf 1,6-8 file2.pdf 3,4,5 -- output.pdf
  • Write each group of n pages to a separate output file with a given filename pattern:
    qpdf --split-pages=n input.pdf out_%d.pdf
  • Rotate certain pages of a PDF with a given angle:
    qpdf --rotate=90:2,4,6 --rotate=180:7-8 input.pdf output.pdf
  • Remove the password from a password-protected file:
    qpdf --password=password --decrypt input.pdf output.pdf

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