Command-line software that manipulates PDF files, including merging, splitting, encrypting and decrypting.
PDFtk Server is a free and open source PDF merger app and PDF tool, developed by Steward and Lee, LLC for Windows. It's pretty advanced.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below.
A command-line tool for manipulating end editing PDF documents
PDFtk Server is our command-line tool for working with PDFs. It is commonly used for client-side scripting or server-side processing of PDFs.
With it, you can merge PDF documents or collate PDF page scans, split PDF pages into a new document, rotate PDF documents or pages, decrypt input as necessary (password required) and much more.
It is also used by OEMs and ISVs to give their products the ability to manipulate PDFs. A commercial license is required to distribute PDFtk with your commercial product.
Features of PDFtk Server
- Assemble: Reorder and delete pages in a PDF document.
- Bookmark: Add, edit and delete bookmarks in a PDF document.
- Burst: Split a single PDF document into individual pages.
- Compress: Reduce the size of PDF documents for faster viewing.
- Convert: Convert PDF documents to Microsoft Word documents.
- Encrypt: Encrypt and decrypt PDF documents.
- Extract: Extract text, images and other data from PDF documents.
- Fill Forms: Fill in and save PDF forms.
- Merge: Combine multiple PDF documents into a single PDF document.
- Repair: Fix broken PDF documents.
- Report: Generate data reports from PDF documents.
- Rotate: Rotate pages within a PDF document.
- Split & Merge: Batch split and merge PDF documents.
- Split: Split a single PDF document into multiple PDF documents.
- Stamp: Add a text or image watermark to a PDF.
Compatibility and License
PDFtk Server has been released under the open source GPL license on Windows from PDF software. The license provides the options to freely download, install, run and share this program without any restrictions. The source code for PDFtk Server should be freely available and modifications are certainly permitted as well as the option to inspect the software.
Is PDFtk Server for Windows 10?
Yes. It can run on a PC with Windows 11 or Windows 10. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.
Filed under:
- PDFtk Server Download
- Free PDF Software
- Open source and GPL software
- PDF Merging Software
- Software for Windows 10