Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.

The package poppler-utils contains pdf utilities based on Poppler.

  • pdfunite: concatenate documents

    pdfunite file1.pdf file2.pdf out.pdf

  • pdfseparate: page extraction tool

    extract from sample.pdf pages 3 to 5, generating sample-page-3.pdf, sample-page-4.pdf, sample-page-5.pdf

    pdfseparate -f 3 -l 5 sample.pdf sample-page-%d.pdf

  • pdftotext: text extraction

  • pdftoppm: convert to image formats

pdftoppm -png file.pdf > file.png

  • pdfinfo: document information

  • pdfsig: verify digital signatures