Merge multiple PDF Files into a single PDF document supporting three output formats: Buffer, Stream, New file on disk.
PDFMerge uses PDFtk to merge the documents and as such it is a requirement in order for PDFMerge to work. It will work on any platform supported by PDFtk.
Starting from v1.0.0 a requirement of Node >= 4.0.0 is required as well. If you are stuck in the dark ages then npm i pdf-merge@0.1.1
should still work.
Download and run the Installer.
apt-get install pdftk
https://www.pdflabs.com/docs/install-pdftk-on-redhat-or-centos/
PDFMerge(files
, options
)
files
is expected to be an array of files (must be full path for each respective file) or objects.
The file object have the follow options:
file
Full path of PDF fileinputPw
Password to decrypt a PDF Optional!options
:
libPath
Should only be provided if pdftk is not in your PATH
Optional!output
Defaults to Buffer
. Values Buffer
, Stream
, and path to a new file are accepted. Optional!execOptions
This is an optional string where you can pass additional argument to pdftk, for
example compress. For the complete list see the docu of the pdftkconst PDFMerge = require('pdf-merge');
const files = [
`${__dirname}/1.pdf`,
`${__dirname}/2.pdf`,
{file: `${__dirname}/protected.pdf`, inputPw: '_SeCrEt_'}
];
//Buffer (Default)
PDFMerge(files)
.then((buffer) => {...});
//Stream
PDFMerge(files, {output: 'Stream'})
.then((stream) => {...});
//Save as new file
PDFMerge(files, {output: `${__dirname}/3.pdf`})
.then((buffer) => {...});