Command line tricks: PDF editing: Westerlies — a personal archive

Command line tricks: PDF editing

Command line tools: qpdf, mutool.

merge multiple PDF files

qpdf --empty --pages input1.pdf input2.pdf -- output.pdf

extract pages 1-10 and drop metadata for the rest pages
```
qpdf --empty --pages input.pdf 1-10 -- output.pdf
```

rotate all the pages for 90 degree
```
qpdf input.pdf --rotate=+90 output.pdf
```

extract pages 1-10 (fonts and forms not supported)
```
mutool convert -o output.pdf input.pdf 1-10
```

remove PDF password protection (need to know the password)
```
mutool clean -p "myPassword" -D input.pdf output.pdf
```