cpdf

Manipulate PDF files. More information: https://www.coherentpdf.com/cpdfmanual/cpdfmanual.html.

• Select pages 1, 2, 3 and 6 from a source document and write those to a destination document:

cpdf path/to/source_document.pdf 1-3,6 -o path/to/destination_document.pdf

• Merge two documents into a new one:

cpdf -merge path/to/source_document_one.pdf path/to/source_document_two.pdf -o path/to/destination_document.pdf

• Show the bookmarks of a document:

cpdf -list-bookmarks path/to/document.pdf

• Split a document into ten-page chunks, writing them to chunk001.pdf, chunk002.pdf, etc:

cpdf -split path/to/document.pdf -o path/to/chunk%%%.pdf -chunk 10

• Encrypt a document using 128bit encryption, providing fred as owner password and joe as user password:

cpdf -encrypt 128bit fred joe path/to/source_document.pdf -o path/to/encrypted_document.pdf

• Decrypt a document using the owner password fred:

cpdf -decrypt path/to/encrypted_document.pdf owner=fred -o path/to/decrypted_document.pdf

• Show the annotations of a document:

cpdf -list-annotations path/to/document.pdf

• Create a new document from an existing one with additional metadata:

cpdf -set-metadata path/to/metadata.xml path/to/source_document.pdf -o path/to/destination_document.pdf