pdfman

A command line PDF manipulation tool built using node.js

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Table of Contents

• Features
• Install

Features

Index	Feature
1	Split PDF
2	Merge PDF
3	Delete PDF

Install

Package manager

Using npm:

$ npm install pdfman -g 

Split

1. split pdf based on range

   Example :

   # split page 1,2 of example.pdf as invidual pdf
   $ pdfman split -r 1 2 -f "G:/example.pdf" 
   
   # split pages 2,3 of all pdfs in directory and save seperately
   $ pdfman split -r 1 2 -d "G:/files"

2. split pdf based on page numbers

   Example :

   # split pages 2,3 of example.pdf
   $ pdfman split -n 2 3 -f "G:/example.pdf"
   
   # split pages 2,3 of all pdfs in directory
   $ pdfman split -n 2 3 -d "G:/files"

3. split all pages into invidual pdf

   Example :

   # split all the pages in example.pdf into invidual pdfs
   $ pdfman split -a -f "G:/example.pdf"
   
   # split all the pages in directory into invidual pdfs
   $ pdfman split -a -d "G:/files"

Split tree view - options

pdfman
    └── split 
        ├── -r <start> <end> or --range <start> <end>
        ├── -n <pages...> or --number <pages...> 
        ├── -a or --all
        ├── -f <file paths...> or --file <file paths...>
        ├── -d <directory path> or --dir <directory path>
        └── -o <output path> or --out <output path>

Merge

1. creating a single pdf given multiple pdf files from different locations

   Example :

   # Generate single pdf from given pdf files
   $ pdfman merge -f "G:/example-1.pdf" "C:/example-2.pdf" "F:/example-3.pdf" 

2. creating a single pdf using the files present in the directory

   Example :

   # Generate single pdf from the files in given directory
   $ pdfman merge -d "G:/expdir"

Merge tree view - options

pdfman
    └── merge 
        ├── -f <file paths...> or --file <file paths...>
        ├── -d <directory path> or --dir <directory path>
        └── -o <output path> or --out <output path>

Delete

1. Delete pages based on range

   Example :

   # delete page range 1-3 of example.pdf
   $ pdfman delete -r 1 3 -f "G:/example.pdf" 
   
   # delete pages range 1-3 of all pdfs in directory
   $ pdfman delete -r 1 3 -d "G:/files"

2. Delete pages based on page numbers

   Example :

   # delete pages 2,3 of example.pdf
   $ pdfman delete -n 2 3 -f "G:/example.pdf"
   
   # split pages 2,3 of all pdfs in directory
   $ pdfman delete -n 2 3 -d "G:/files"

Delete tree view - options

pdfman
    └── delete
        ├── -r <start> <end> or --range <start> <end>
        ├── -n <pages...> or --number <pages...> 
        ├── -f <file paths...> or --file <file paths...>
        ├── -d <directory path> or --dir <directory path>
        └── -o <output path> or --out <output path>