how can I extract single pages from a pdf using pdftk commands? Thanks for your help!
From the quick look at the pdftk homepage
For example if you want to extract 11th page then you can do it like this
pdftk A=full-pdf.pdf cat A11 output outfile_p11.pdf
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I need to convert 750 jpg images into a single a4 size pdf. My problem is page no 10 comes right after page no. 1 :). I tried various combinations of find, ls, grep available on the net. But the pdf come out all mixed up. Is there any command to do the needful?
OK.Here is what I did:
Step 1: Convert all the jpg files into pdf
for img in *.jpg; do
filename=${img%.*}
convert "$filename.jpg" "$filename.pdf"
done
Step 2: Install pdfchain from the ubuntu repos, and start it. It did the job like a hotknife through butter :)
No jumbling of page numbers...
I am generating a logfile on one of my servers.
Storing alot of data, then sending it to my mail once a month as a pdf file.
The prosess i am using is to 'cat' alot of commands to a text file, then convert it and send.
Is there any linux programs or some eazy way to do something simulare and add a image i have stored on the server in the pdf file?
This answer assumes that you just want to put the image at the end of the PDF.
You could first convert the image using imagemagick to a PDF doing this (will also work with different file types):
convert image.jpg image.pdf
Then, you can use a tool like stapler or pdftk to combine your generated text PDF and the image.pdf (you can add multiple images):
stapler cat text.pdf image.pdf combined.pdf
pdftk text.pdf image.pdf output combined.pdf
I've more than 500 PDF files stored on linux server with 5 pages each. I want only first 4 pages in each file. Is there any way to cut last page from all 500 PDF pages on linux ?
You can us the tool pdftk (need to be installed)
To only have page 1-4 from the in.pdf in your out.pdf file you have to type
pdftk in.pdf cat 1-4 output out.pdf
pdftk is a very powerfull tool, which can do a number of pdf manipulations. Have a look at the man page. At the end of the man pages are some examples of the most common tasks.
How I can take snapshot of first page of PDF file in Linux? I wanna do this on VPS server automaticaly. My distribution is Debian.
ImageMagick can convert PDF pages if you have Ghostscript installed.
You can do this with PDFTK. It's available in the Ubuntu repos, so check there first.
The syntax you'll want to grab the first page is:
$ pdftk input.pdf cat 1 output out.pdf
Press & Hold SHIFT + Print_screen KEYS and with mouse select the rectangle of pdf page you want to take screenshot ...
I have pdf -files which contents I have not managed to search by any terminal program.
I can only search them by Acrobat Reader and Skim.
How can you search contents of pdf -files in terminal?
It seems that a better question is
How is the search done in the pdf viewers such as Acrobat Reader and Skim?
Perhaps, I need to make such a search tool if no such tools exist.
Try installing xpdf from MacPorts; it is supposed to come with a tool called pdftotext which should then allow you to search using grep.
pdftotext is indeed an excellent tool, but it produces very long lines; in order to grep you will want to break them up, e.g.,
pdftotext drscheme.pdf - | fmt | grep -i spidey
PDF files are usually compressed. PDF viewers such as Acrobat Reader and Skim search the contents by decompressing the PDF text into memory, and then searching that text. If you want to search from the command line, one possible suggestion is to use pdftk to decompress the PDF, and then use grep (or your favorite command line text searching utility) to find the desired text. For example:
# Search for the text "text_to_search_for", and print out 3 lines of context
# above and below each match
pdftk mydoc.pdf output - uncompress | grep -C3 text_to_search_for