PDFsak

Retraction Notice

This is in low maintanance mode.

I don't use it nowadays except for the rare cases in which I have to add page numbers to PDF files.

For all other PDF manipulation I suggest you use pdfarranger.

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About it

Logo from kgullion provided here.

PDFsak (PDF Swiss Army knife) is an utility to manipulate PDF files.

The previous name of the project (as of 2021-10-10) was "pdftools".

It allows you to:

• Merge
• N-up pages (put more than one input page into a single output page)
• Trim pages
• Extract pages
• Rotate pages
• Swap pages
• Delete pages
• Create handouts
• Add text (like page numbers)
• Remove owner protection (the one which allows you to open the file without a password, but not to print, annotate or copy from it)
• Remove metadata
• Simulate Adobe Acrobat Clearscan: vectorize the text to improve quality and readability
• Add watermarks or images
• And more

PDFsak has been tested on Windows and Linux (Fedora).

It should work also on macOS, although it has not been tested on this platform.

Documentation

Checkout the online documentation for requirements, installation, usage and examples.