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:
>>>
>>> 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.
>

None of the tools you mention above can edit the extracted files.

Any PDF editing is an inherent cludge.