Re: Restating question "How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?"

[Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com>]

The poppler-utils package has tools like:

pdfseparate -- page extraction tool
pdftotext -- text extraction
pdftohtml -- PDF to HTML converter

Many others as well, but those might be of immediate value to you.

Years ago, pre-PDF, there used to be tools like ps2ps, pstops
(different tools, I think) and such, that would do all sorts of
manipulations.  When PDF came into existence, folks wrote similar
pdf2pdf and pdftopdf tools.

I *thought* the first set was called "psutils" but `apt show psutils`
shows something different.  Likely things changed.  After all, I'm
referring to the late 80s, early 90s, and I probably grabbed my copies
off of Usenet.

But, that poppler-utils package looks to be in the same vein.

mrc