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PDFtk

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Adapted from the English Wikipedia article PDFtk, available under CC BY-SA 4.0Updated 9 August 2025
PDFtk
Company typeSoftware
IndustrySoftware, PDF tools
FounderMarc Vinyals (Java implementation)
Area served
Cross-platform (Linux, Windows, macOS)
ProductsPDFtk Server, PDFtk Free, PDFtk Pro, pdftk-java

PDFtk (PDF Toolkit) is a collection of tools designed for handling Portable Document Format (PDF) files, compatible across Linux, Windows, and macOS platforms. It is available in three variants: PDFtk Server, an open-source command-line utility; PDFtk Free, a no-cost version; and PDFtk Pro, a commercial edition. The application enables tasks such as merging, rearranging, dividing, rotating PDF documents, and editing metadata. Users can interact with the software through both command-line interfaces and graphical user interfaces.

Java implementation

The Java adaptation of PDFtk, known as pdftk-java, was created by Marc Vinyals and is distributed under the GPL license. This version was initially launched on December 30, 2017.

See also

External links

  • PDF Chain, a Linux GUI released under GPL
  • A legacy GUI, compatible with Windows and most Linux systems (GPL)
  • PDFTK4ALL, Windows graphical interface (GPL), latest version 0.2.1.0 beta from February 25, 2009, incorporating PDFTK 1.41
  • PDFTK Builder, Windows GUI (GPL), last updated July 13, 2018 with version 3.10.0