Pdfsam for merging/splitting/etc. For creating PDF from bunch of images you may try Libreoffice Draw, for instance.
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Literally minutes ago I just searched google for 5 minutes to find this. I couldn’t remember the name. For. My purposes, this tool works so well.
You can try pdf24 too. A German freeware tool that works online or local.
Its insane how hard to find these on google with all the cluttered spam pages.
Exactly! That's why I ended up asking here. Lots of good recommendations :)
I love PDFArranger. It has basic functions such as rotate, add or delete pages and it comes very handy for large documents. Also It is available on Linux, Mac and Windows: https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger
100% recommendation from me aswell.
Can't live without this tool anymore :-D
LibreOffice Draw is good
I use pdftk. Its command line only, but does most things well
If you like web tools maybe https://github.com/Frooodle/Stirling-PDF could be something for you.
Come here to recommend it, also. You can selfhost it in low-power device, I have mine running in a pi4.
I have tried to install it on my pi4 as well but it craps out when doing simple stuff... Maybe it's because I have out it behind nginx as a reverse proxy... I'll try again when I have time, because it works very well (when it works).
I have also behind nginx, as folder not subdomain, and works quite good. Some config issue, could be?
Likely this, yes. I'll have to dig into it. Thanks!
I use command line tools for this, for most those things pdftk should be enough and it works great -if the command line is too daunting for you, there's PDF chain a graphical front-end for pdftk.
For creating PDFs from images i often use imagemagick.
I'm using pdftk too.
I've used pdf.tocgen to add chapter headings into pdfs. It was the only thing I found that could do any pdf table of contents editing at all period. I think it can do a few other things though.
Master PDF Editor. The current version is paid, but version 4 is free. It's a good swiss knife like PDF tool.
Ghostscript
qpdf is the best CLI tool that I have used to edit the structure of a PDF. I recommend it if you don't require a GUI, and do not need to edit the content.
I have been looking for an open source editor that is comparable to Acrobat Pro for years. In fact, this and that it is not even acknowledged that such an essential tool for office workers is missing in Linux are among the main reasons I don't ditch Windows on my main machine.
PDF Arranger, Ghostscript and Master PDF are indeed useful.
PDF4QT was not mentioned by others. It works well already and is a very promising PDF viewer, organiser, editor. I am not sure why it has to be split into three applications.
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