Suggested tools - [Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?]

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net>]

On 7/20/25 5:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I'm running Debian 12.8.
>
> I have a 100+ page PDF document.
> I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file.
> I wish to edit those 2 files.
> How?
> [Simple question but I suspect answer may not be so simple.
>   What I've read confuses me.]
>
> TIA

For convenience of future readers - these tools have been suggested to 
me in this thread.

> mutool      - all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files
> pdftk       - Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor
> qpdf        - PDF transformation software
> xpdf        - Portable Document Format (PDF) file viewer for X (xpopple)
> pdfarranger - Application for PDF Merging, Rearranging, Splitting, and Cropping
> pdfsam      - PDF Split and Merge
> > The poppler-utils package includes:
> >     pdfseparate -- page extraction tool
> >     pdftotext   -- text extraction
> >     pdftohtml   -- PDF to HTML converter

I'll try each under Debian 12.8
I could not install pdftk. I'll retry when I have updated my Debian.