PDF Split and Merge

PDFsam Basic

PDFsam Basic 3.3.2 with merge PDF module opened
Developer(s)	Andrea Vacondio
Initial release	June 29, 2008 (2008-06-29)
Stable release	3.3.2[1] / May 19, 2017 (2017-05-19)
Repository	github.com/torakiki/pdfsam
Development status	Active
Written in	Java, JavaFX
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	Java
Type	PDF utility
License	AGPLv3 for v3, GPLv2 for previous versions 2.x
Website	www.pdfsam.org

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 from the project's page both as source and compiled code. It is available as MSI package for 32-bit and 64-bit MS Windows, .dmg for Mac OS X, .deb package for Debian based GNU/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 o page numbers
  • Every given number of 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 together taking pages alternately from them
• Save and restore of the workspace

Architecture

PDFsam Basic relies on Sejda SDK, an open source and task oriented Java library to edit PDF files and SAMBox, a PDFBox fork.

Requirements

PDFsam Basic is written in Java and JavaFX and requires a working Java Virtual Machine version 8 or above installed in the operating system in order to run.

See also

• List of PDF software

References

External links

• http://www.pdfsam.org/ - PDF Split and Merge, the project's main page
• https://github.com/torakiki/pdfsam - the project's page on GitHub
• http://www.pdfsam.org/documentation/ - the project's online help web page
• http://sejda.org/ - to execute PDFsam tasks using a Command-line interface
• https://sejda.com/ - to execute PDFsam tasks using a web application