The PDF documents (Portable Document Format) have become a format widely used for a multitude of content due to its versatility and advantages over other formats. I even explained in a tutorial on this blog how you can create fillable PDF for forms. Well, now we are going to see some of the best tools to manipulate PDF content that exist for Linux.
Adobe was the creator of this format in 1993 and today it is a standard that includes a subset of PostScript, a programming language for the description of pages that are also used by printers. To work with this type of format, you already know that there are many tools, many of them compatible with GNU / Linux ...
All the best tools are:
- PDFsam: used to extract pages from PDF, split PDF, merge, and rotate PDFs. DOWNLOAD
- Table: extract data tables from within PDF files. DOWNLOAD
- pdftk- is a varied PDF toolkit. DOWNLOAD
- pstoedit- You can translate PostScript language and PDF graphics into another format. DOWNLOAD
- PDF String: it is a program that has a GUI or graphical interface to work with PDF, similar to pdftk in functions. DOWNLOAD
- img2pdf: As its name suggests, it allows you to convert images to PDF. DOWNLOAD
- krop- Another simple graphical tool for cropping pages from a PDF. DOWNLOAD
- Master PDF Editor: it is a complete editor, there is a free and a paid version. It allows to annotate, edit the document, separate, etc. DOWNLOAD
Remember that there are PDF readers like Evince, Okular, and Foxit Reader. I hope it helped you…