A while ago I wrote a post named Split and merge PDFs with pdftk. Unfortunately, pdftk seems no longer to be maintained for Fedora 21. So we have to use another alternative – poppler-utils:
Install the package with:
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yum install poppler-utils |
..and you can use them to both split and merge files. poppler-utils contains a list of tools that you can use to manipulate PDFs:
- pdfdetach — lists or extracts embedded files (attachments)
- pdffonts — font analyzer
- pdfimages — image extractor
- pdfinfo — document information
- pdfseparate — page extraction tool
- pdftocairo — pdf to png/jpeg/pdf/ps/eps/svg converter using cairo
- pdftohtml — pdf to html converter
- pdftoppm — pdf to ppm/png/jpeg image converter
- pdftops — pdf to postscript (ps) converter
- pdftotext — text extraction
- pdfunite — document merging tool
So, we move on to merging and splitting:
Merge
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pdfunite first_page.pdf second_page.pdf end_document.pdf |
Split
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pdfseparate -f 1 end_document.pdf %d.pdf |
Check out man pdfseparate for more information about the tool.