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
    2. sudo snap install pdftk

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


Purpose

Manipulate pdf documents

Usage

  1. change password status
    1. You need to know the password in both cases
    2. remove password

pdftk inputFileName.pdf input_pw actualPassword output outputFileName_no_pw.pdf

    1. add a password

pdftk inputFileName.pdf output outputFileName.pdf user_pw actualPassword

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