# PDFtk

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Software for manipulating PDF documents

PDFtk Developer Sid Steward Release July 14, 2004 (2004-07-14) Stable release 2.02 / July 24, 2013; 12 years ago (2013-07-24)[1] Written in C++ Operating system Cross-platform Type PDF utility License Proprietary[2] / GPL Website www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

**PDFtk** (short for **PDF Toolkit**) is a [toolkit](/source/Toolkit) for manipulating [Portable Document Format](/source/Portable_Document_Format) (PDF) documents.[3][4] It runs on [Linux](/source/Linux), [Windows](/source/Microsoft_Windows) and [macOS](/source/MacOS).[5] It comes in three versions: PDFtk Server ([open-source](/source/Open-source) [command-line tool](/source/Command-line_tool)), PDFtk Free ([freeware](/source/Freeware)) and PDFtk Pro ([proprietary paid](/source/Proprietary_software)).[2] It is able to concatenate, shuffle, split and rotate PDF files. It can also show and update metadata. Both [CLI](/source/Command-line_interface) and [GUI](/source/GUI) versions of PDFtk are available.

## Java implementation

**pdftk-java** is a port of PDFtk into [Java](/source/Java_(programming_language))[6] which is developed by Marc Vinyals and GPL licensed. The initial release was on December 30, 2017.

## See also

- [List of PDF software](/source/List_of_PDF_software)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [PDFtk Version History](http://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-version-history/), 2.02 – July 24, 2013.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-web_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-web_2-1) ["PDFtk – The PDF toolkit"](https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/). *PdfLabs.com*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Sharma, Shashank (February 4, 2021). ["How To Manipulate PDF Files in Linux With PDFtk"](https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/manipulate-pdf-files-with-pdftk). *[Tom's Hardware](/source/Tom's_Hardware)*. Retrieved April 20, 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Henry-Stocker, Sandra (March 1, 2021). ["Creating and merging PDFs on Linux"](https://www.networkworld.com/article/3609508/creating-and-merging-pdfs-on-linux.html). *[Network World](/source/Network_World)*. Retrieved April 20, 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Steward, Sid (2004). *PDF Hacks* (1st ed.). Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media. p. [201](https://www.google.com/books/edition/PDF_Hacks/ozWeSBkPQW4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA201&printsec=frontcover). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-4493-6220-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4493-6220-1). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [58557987](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/58557987).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Das, Ankush (September 24, 2017). ["10 Best Linux PDF Editors You Can Use in 2020"](https://itsfoss.com/pdf-editors-linux/). *ItsFOSS.com*. Retrieved April 20, 2021.

## External links

- [Official website](https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/)

- [PDF Chain](https://pdfchain.sourceforge.net/), a GUI for Linux (GPL)

- [An older GUI](http://www.paehl.de/pdf/gui_pdftk.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20111204075134/http://www.paehl.de/pdf/gui_pdftk.html) December 4, 2011, at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), working under Windows and most Linux distributions (GPL)

- [PDFTK4ALL](https://pdftk4all.sourceforge.net/), a GUI for Windows (GPL), last release 0.2.1.0 beta from February 25, 2009 including a copy of PDFTK 1.41

- [PDFTK Builder](http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/#pdftkbuilder), a GUI for Windows (GPL), last release 3.10.0 from July 13, 2018

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