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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[-] Engywuck@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

Pdfsam for merging/splitting/etc. For creating PDF from bunch of images you may try Libreoffice Draw, for instance.

[-] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Literally minutes ago I just searched google for 5 minutes to find this. I couldn’t remember the name. For. My purposes, this tool works so well.

[-] xortingen@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

You can try pdf24 too. A German freeware tool that works online or local.

Its insane how hard to find these on google with all the cluttered spam pages.

[-] reboot6675@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Exactly! That's why I ended up asking here. Lots of good recommendations :)

[-] kbrown@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

For merging and splitting I use PDF Arranger

[-] rgarciag@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

I love PDFArranger. It has basic functions such as rotate, add or delete pages and it comes very handy for large documents. Also It is available on Linux, Mac and Windows: https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger

[-] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

100% recommendation from me aswell.

Can't live without this tool anymore :-D

[-] authed@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

LibreOffice Draw is good

[-] gi1242@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I use pdftk. Its command line only, but does most things well

[-] fbartels@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

If you like web tools maybe https://github.com/Frooodle/Stirling-PDF could be something for you.

[-] kurotora@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Come here to recommend it, also. You can selfhost it in low-power device, I have mine running in a pi4.

[-] Engywuck@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

I have tried to install it on my pi4 as well but it craps out when doing simple stuff... Maybe it's because I have out it behind nginx as a reverse proxy... I'll try again when I have time, because it works very well (when it works).

[-] brunox@feddit.cl 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.

[-] writ@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm using pdftk too.

[-] lambda_notation@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Ghostscript

[-] UdeRecife@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Master PDF Editor. The current version is paid, but version 4 is free. It's a good swiss knife like PDF tool.

[-] Stopwatch1986@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I have been looking for an open source editor that is comparable to Acrobat Pro for years. In fact, this and that it is not even acknowledged that such an essential tool for office workers is missing in Linux are among the main reasons I don't ditch Windows on my main machine.

PDF Arranger, Ghostscript and Master PDF are indeed useful.

PDF4QT was not mentioned by others. It works well already and is a very promising PDF viewer, organiser, editor. I am not sure why it has to be split into three applications.

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