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Any recommendation for basic PDF tools? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by reboot6675@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I'm not looking for a full PDF editor. Only to do tasks like merging and splitting PDFs, removing pages, or creating a PDF from a bunch of images.

https://www.ilovepdf.com is very handy, but I don't like the idea of uploading my documents to them, especially if they have sensitive data.

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[–] brunox 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use command line tools for this, for most those things pdftk should be enough and it works great -if the command line is too daunting for you, there's PDF chain a graphical front-end for pdftk.

For creating PDFs from images i often use imagemagick.