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

[Greg <curtyshoo@gmail.com>]

On 2025-07-23, Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> wrote:
> 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.

Or you just print to file in any browser.