PDF Split and Merge
Developer(s) | Andrea Vacondio |
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Initial release | June 29, 2008 |
Stable release | 4.2.5[1]
/ 17 May 2021 |
Repository | github |
Written in | Java, JavaFX |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Platform | Java |
Type | PDF utility |
License | AGPLv3 for v3, GPLv2 for previous versions 2.x |
Website | pdfsam |
PDFsam Basic or PDF Split and Merge is a free and open-source cross-platform desktop application to split, merge, extract pages, rotate and mix PDF documents.
The distribution system[]
PDFsam Basic is a desktop application freely accessible both as source and compiled code. It is available as MSI package for 32-bit and 64-bit MS Windows, .dmg for macOS, .deb package for Debian based Linux distributions and ZIP bundle for the power users' convenience.
Functionalities[]
- Merge PDF files selecting entire documents or subsections of them. It provides a number of settings to let the user decide what to do in case the original PDF files contain Acro Forms or an outline (bookmarks) and it can generate a table of contents, normalize pages size and add blank pages.
- Split PDF files in a number of ways:
- After every page, even pages or odd pages
- After a given set of page numbers
- Every n pages
- By bookmark level
- By size, where the generated files will roughly have the specified size
- Rotate PDF files where multiple files can be rotated, either every page or a selected set of pages
- Extract pages from multiple PDF files
- Mix PDF files where a number of PDF files are merged, taking pages alternately from them
- Save and restore of the workspace
Architecture[]
PDFsam Basic is written in Java and JavaFX. PDFsam Basic relies on Sejda SDK, an open source and task oriented Java library to edit PDF files and SAMBox, a PDFBox fork.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Release 4.2.5". 17 May 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
External links[]
Categories:
- Free PDF software
- Free software programmed in Java (programming language)