PDF Command line examples

These is just a bunch of Linux commands to manipulate PDF files:

• Check PDF image details:

  pdfimages -list your_file.pdf

• Check PDF metadata:

  pdfinfo file.pdf

• Convert one page of a PDF to PNG:

  magick input.pdf[1] output.png

  This converts page #2 (the index is zero based) to output.png.

• Concatenate PDFs:

  pdfunite file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf ... fileN.pdf output.pdf

• Render a manual page as a PDF

  pdfman manpg

• Extract single pages from a pdf

  pdfseparate sample.pdf sample-%d.pdf

  extracts all pages from sample.pdf, if i.e. sample.pdf has 3 pages, it produces:

  sample-1.pdf, sample-2.pdf, sample-3.pdf

• Convert PDF to SVG

  pdftocairo -svg input.pdf output.svg

These commands require the following tools to be installed:

• imagemagick
• poppler