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

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net>]

On 7/23/25 11:23 AM, Greg wrote:
> 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.

Quoting myself ;}
> I wish to edit those 2 files.