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1. #Pdfkey pro command line tool how to#
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I think the PDFtk Server tool is fabulous. But much easier than manually trying to scan each individual page.Ī further comment.

#Pdfkey pro command line tool pdf#

We now have a completed PDF containing the individual pages from the booklet, all correctly ordered and rotated. The first page in the new PDF was the second from the input PDF and so on. This creates a PDF file, ff4.pdf, with reordered pages. We turn again to PDFtk and run the following command: pdftk ff3.pdf cat 2 3 6 7 10 11 12 9 8 5 4 1 output ff4.pdf In my case the PDF pages contained the following booklet page order: 12, 1, 2, 11, 10, 3, 4, 9, 8, 5, 6, 7 The resultant PDF, ff3.pdf, should now have all the pages as A5 looking pages but they will be out of order.

Once the areas are defined generate the new PDF, ff3.pdf Carefully define two similar sized crop areas over the pair of A5 pages on each displayed A4 stack.

A second crop area can be created by clicking and dragging on the stacked pages. A single crop area is displayed by default for both the even and odd stacked pages. Note that Briss overlays all even and all odd numbered pages so that only two crop definitions are required for multi-page PDFs. We then define two crop areas on each page. In this case we want two crop regions on each PDF page. This is where the Briss tool works its magic. We now have a PDF with the scanned pages correctly orientated but each PDF page consists of two A5 sheets:Ĭrop each A4 PDF page into a pair of A5 PDF pages This command rotates pages 1, 3 and 5 by 180 degrees and outputs the resulting PDF to ff2.pdf. Reading the documentation further, I discovered that one could instead use: pdftk ff1.pdf rotate oddsouth output ff2.pdf In my case, I used the following command line: pdftk ff1.pdf cat 1south 2 3south 4 5south 6 output ff2.pdf We need to get all the pages in the PDF file to be the correct orientation. I ended up with alternating upside down, rightside up sheets. Using a typical tool, such as Foxit Reader, scan the double-sided A4 sheets, into a PDF titled ff1.pdf. The key is to ensure that the pages scan as smoothly and repeatedly as possible. Check the pages remain in order and that they will pass through the scanner without issues. Remove any staples from the booklet and check the pages remain in order The process to scan and process such a booklet and get a usable resulting PDF is as follows. PDFtk is the real gem which I found today.

#Pdfkey pro command line tool free#

Three free tools can accomplish what I want. Turns out there is, and with a bit of Googling I found this. This worked in a fashion but the scanner had reliability issues when feeding the A5 sheets. In the past, I tried to solve this type of task by cutting the A4 sheets in half and then scanning the resultant A5 sheets. The page numbers of the booklet were as follows:Ī4 sheet1: A5 pages: 12 / 1 (reverse side: 2 / 11)Ī4 sheet2: A5 pages: 10 / 3 (reverse side: 4 / 9)Ī4 sheet3: A5 pages: 8 / 5 (reverse side: 6 / 7) Each printed portrait A5 page was half of a landscape A4 sheet. However, today I had the need to scan an A5 booklet formed of A4 sheets. Single pages are typically no problem, as described above. I’ve started scanning a variety of documents rather than keeping paper copies. In the past I’ve managed to find a variety of tools to do these one off PDF manipulations, say a merge of two documents, but no real “workhorse” tool or programme which is worth keeping around. I do own an old copy of Adobe Acrobat, which can do many of these functions but it is on an old computer and I don’t seem to be able to move it thanks to Adobe’s licensing regime. However, for anything more complicated (page insertion, deletion, rotation, etc) I’ve always run into problems finding free tools. Scanning documents and converting them to PDF files is fairly simple these days thanks to freebies such as Foxit Reader.

#Pdfkey pro command line tool how to#

This blog entry is primarily a reminder to myself of how to do this, but hopefully it will help someone else. In this instance the tool is for PDF manipulation. It is not often that I come across a tool which does something I’ve been trying to do for a long time.