IT/Software/Command Line Applications/PDF Toolkit

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PDF Toolkit or pdftk from the command line

History

  1. Worked well till somewhere in 18.04
    1. Now must be a snap install

sudo snap install pdftk

  1. You can add this symlink back in so that other apps can access pdftk as if it was in the normal/old location

sudo ln -s /snap/pdftk/current/usr/bin/pdftk /usr/bin/pdftk

Purpose

Manipulate pdf documents

Usage

Change password status

You need to know the password in both cases

  1. remove password
    1. pdftk inputFileName.pdf input_pw actualPassword output outputFileName_no_pw.pdf
  2. add a password
    1. pdftk inputFileName.pdf output outputFileName.pdf user_pw actualPassword


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