Pdftk
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pdftk or the pdf toolkit is an open source
cross-platform
tool for manipulating PDF
documents. pdftk is basically a front end to the iText
library (compiled to Native code using GCJ), capable of splitting, merging, encrypting, decrypting, uncompressing, recompressing, and repairing PDFs. It can also be used to manipulate watermarks, metadata
, and to fill PDF Forms with FDF Data (Forms Data Format) or XFDF Data (XML Form Data Format).
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
cross-platform
Cross-platform
In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms...
tool for manipulating PDF
Portable Document Format
Portable Document Format is an open standard for document exchange. This file format, created by Adobe Systems in 1993, is used for representing documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems....
documents. pdftk is basically a front end to the iText
IText
iText is a free and open source library for creating and manipulating PDF files in Java. It was written by Bruno Lowagie, Paulo Soares, and others. As of version 5.0.0 it is distributed under the Affero General Public License version 3. Previous versions of iText were distributed under the...
library (compiled to Native code using GCJ), capable of splitting, merging, encrypting, decrypting, uncompressing, recompressing, and repairing PDFs. It can also be used to manipulate watermarks, metadata
Metadata
The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...
, and to fill PDF Forms with FDF Data (Forms Data Format) or XFDF Data (XML Form Data Format).
External links
- http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ - PDFTK, The PDF Toolkit (GPL)
- http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/#pdftkbuilder - PDFTK Builder, a GUI for Windows (GPL)
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfchain/ - PDF Chain, a GUI for GNU-Linux (GPL)
- http://www.paehl.de/pdf/gui_pdftk.html - an older GUI, working under Windows and most Linux's (GPL)