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{{Short description|Software for manipulating PDF documents}}
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| name                   = PDFtk
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| developer              = Sid Steward
| released               = {{start date|2004|07|14}}
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| latest release version = 2.02
| latest release date    = {{start date and age|2013|07|24}}<ref>[http://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-version-history/ PDFtk Version History], 2.02 – July 24, 2013.</ref>
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| programming language   = [[C++]]
| operating system       = [[Cross-platform]]
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| genre                  = [[Portable Document Format|PDF]] utility
| license                = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]<ref name=web>[https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ PDFtk – The PDF toolkit].</ref> / [[GNU General Public License|GPL]]
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'''PDFtk''' (short for '''PDF Toolkit''') is a [[toolkit]] for manipulating [[Portable Document Format]] (PDF) documents.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sharma |first=Shashank |date=February 4, 2021 |title=How To Manipulate PDF Files in Linux With PDFtk |url=https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/manipulate-pdf-files-with-pdftk |access-date=April 20, 2021 |website=[[Tom's Hardware]] }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Henry-Stocker |first=Sandra |date=March 1, 2021 |title=Creating and merging PDFs on Linux |url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/3609508/creating-and-merging-pdfs-on-linux.html |access-date=April 20, 2021 |website=[[Network World]] }}</ref> It runs on [[Linux]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] and [[macOS]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Steward|first=Sid|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58557987|title=PDF Hacks|date=2004|publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc|isbn=978-1-4493-6220-1|edition=1st|location=Sebastopol, CA|pages=201|oclc=58557987}}</ref> It comes in three versions: PDFtk Server ([[open-source]] [[command-line tool]]), PDFtk Free ([[freeware]]) and PDFtk Pro ([[Proprietary software|proprietary paid]]).<ref name="web" /> It is able to concatenate, shuffle, split and rotate PDF files. It can also show and update metadata. Both [[Command-line interface|CLI]] and [[GUI]] versions of PDFtk are available.
== Java implementation ==
'''pdftk-java''' is a port of PDFtk into [[Java (programming language)|Java]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Das |first=Ankush |title=10 Best Linux PDF Editors You Can Use in 2020 |url=https://itsfoss.com/pdf-editors-linux/ |access-date=April 20, 2021 |website=ItsFOSS.com |date=September 24, 2017 }}</ref> which is developed by Marc Vinyals and GPL licensed. The initial release was on December 30, 2017.
==See also==
* [[List of PDF software]]
==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website}}
* [http://pdfchain.sourceforge.net/ PDF Chain], a GUI for Linux (GPL)
* [http://www.paehl.de/pdf/gui_pdftk.html An older GUI], working under Windows and most Linux distributions (GPL)
* [http://pdftk4all.sourceforge.net/ PDFTK4ALL], a GUI for Windows (GPL), last release 0.2.1.0 beta from <time>February 25, 2009</time> including a copy of PDFTK 1.41
* [http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/#pdftkbuilder PDFTK Builder], a GUI for Windows (GPL), last release 3.10.0 from <time>July 13, 2018</time>
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