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.
Pdfsam for merging/splitting/etc. For creating PDF from bunch of images you may try Libreoffice Draw, for instance.
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.
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.
Exactly! That’s why I ended up asking here. Lots of good recommendations :)
For merging and splitting I use PDF Arranger
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
100% recommendation from me aswell.
Can’t live without this tool anymore :-D
LibreOffice Draw is good
I use pdftk. Its command line only, but does most things well
If you like web tools maybe https://github.com/Frooodle/Stirling-PDF could be something for you.
Come here to recommend it, also. You can selfhost it in low-power device, I have mine running in a pi4.
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).
I have also behind nginx, as folder not subdomain, and works quite good. Some config issue, could be?
Likely this, yes. I’ll have to dig into it. Thanks!
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.
I’m using pdftk too.
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qpdf is the best CLI tool that I have used to edit the structure of a PDF. I recommend it if you don’t require a GUI, and do not need to edit the content.
Master PDF Editor. The current version is paid, but version 4 is free. It’s a good swiss knife like PDF tool.
