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pdftk basic usage.md

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To merge (concatenate) pdfs:
$ pdftk inputs cat output newfile.pdf
$ pdftk inputs cat output newfile.pdf
To merge all pdfs:
$ pdftk *.pdf cat output newfile.pdf
$ pdftk *.pdf cat output newfile.pdf
To break a pdf into single page files:
$ pdftk input.pdf burst
$ pdftk input.pdf burst
To combine parts of two or more files, use handles:
$ pdftk A=firstfile.pdf B=secondfile.pdf cat A1-7 B1-5 A8 output newfile.pdf
$ pdftk A=firstfile.pdf B=secondfile.pdf cat A1-7 B1-5 A8 output newfile.pdf
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1) Dump the pdf metadata:
$ pdftk input.pdf dump_data metadata.txt
$ pdftk input.pdf dump_data metadata.txt
2) Edit the metadata (Geany appears to work), adding:
```
InfoBegin
InfoKey: Author
InfoValue: Kenneth John Odle
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3) Update the metadata in the pdf file:
$ pdft input.pdf update_info metadata.txt output.pdf
$ pdft input.pdf update_info metadata.txt output.pdf
Note that you must write to another file, as pdftk cannot overwrite the original file.
Thus, make the file you save the scan as different than what you want the final file to be named.
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Scan the reverse sides: 001b.pdf
This gives you pages 10 8 6 4 2
$ pdftk A=001a.pdf B=001b.pdf shuffle A1-5 B5-1 output 001.pdf
$ pdftk A=001a.pdf B=001b.pdf shuffle A1-5 B5-1 output 001.pdf
001.pdf should now be in the order:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
See the sample files included in this repo.
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