Coherent PDF Tools give you a wide range of professional, robust tools to modify PDF files.

All based on our own PDF technology and with a comprehensive manual.

Feature highlights (less)

• General features
  • Apply most operations to just selected page ranges of input files
  • Decrypt on-the-fly when an input file is encrypted
  • Use standard input and standard output to chain commands together
  • Keep or change PDF File IDs
  • Use a control file for parameters instead of the command line
  • Linearize for fast web view on any operation
  • Reconstruct malformed files
  • Call from programs with full error handling
  • Combine multiple operations into one command line
  • Create new PDFs and convert text files to PDF
• Merging and splitting
  • Merge several PDF files into one, keeping bookmarks
  • Collate pages when merging
  • Split a PDF into several chunks of a give size, keeping relevant bookmarks
  • Split a PDF at bookmark boundaries (chapter, section etc)
  • Split a PDF to a given maximum file size
  • Split a PDF to multiple outputs, shuffling pages
• Page operations
  • Scale pages (e.g from one paper size to another)
  • Scale pages to fit
  • Shift the contents of a page (e.g to change the margins)
  • Rotate a page, in absolute or relative terms
  • Flip a page horizontally or vertically
  • Crop pages, or remove cropping
  • Set a page's media, trim, art, bleed and crop boxes
  • Add trim marks
• Encrypt and decrypt PDF files using 40 bit and 128 bit RC4, or 128 bit and 256 bit AES security
• Compress and Decompress the streams in a PDF file
• Losslessly Squeeze files to reduce their size
• Bookmarks
  • List the bookmarks in a file (to JSON if required)
  • Remove the bookmarks from a file (from JSON if required)
  • Add bookmarks to a file
  • Use complex destinations
  • Build a table of contents from a PDF's bookmarks
• Make PDF-based presentations with transition effects
• Logos, watermarks and stamps
  • Stamp a page over or under the pages of a file e.g to watermark
  • Combine the pages of two files by combining the individual pages
  • Add text, shapes, page numbers, or bates numbers to a page in different fonts, colors and sizes, and with transparency.
  • Add multiline text paragraphs including justification.
  • Load and use TrueType fonts from any source
  • Add simple shapes to a page
• Multipage facilities
  • Put multiple pages on one page (imposition, n-up)
  • Insert blank pages to pad before or after
  • Chop pages into sections
• Annotations
  • List annotations (as JSON if required)
  • Add annotations from JSON source, including round-tripping
  • Copy annotations from one file to another
  • Remove annotations from a file
• Document information and metadata
  • Count pages
  • List page info
  • List fonts
  • Read document info
  • Set title, author etc.
  • Set page layout, page mode and Acrobat display options
  • Read, delete and set metadata
  • Add, print, modify or remove page labels
  • Set producer and creator
  • Set, create or read XMP Metadata and individual fields
  • Show amount of space used by fonts, page streams etc.
  • Identify PDF/A, PDF/X, PDF/E, PDF/VT, PDF/UA
• Add, remove, and extract file attachments, including other PDFs
• Export PDF file to and import PDF file from JSON, including page contents
• Manipulate optional content groups
• Create new PDFs
  • Make new blanck PDF file
  • Convert a text file to PDF
  • Make a PDF from a PNG or JPEG image
  • Build documents from JBIG2 images
• Drawing on PDFs
  • Add paths and filled shapes
  • Clipping paths
  • Matrix transformations
  • Re-use content with XObjects
  • Insert images
  • Use transparency
  • Add text
  • Create multi-page document
  • Create tagged PDF (including PDF/UA)
• Reprocess images within a PDF to compress them
• Rasterize individual PDF pages, or a whole PDF
• Export pages as PNG or JPEG
• Miscellaneous
  • List spot colours
  • Thicken hairlines
  • Detect missing fonts
  • Copy and Remove Fonts
  • Detect low resolution images
  • Remove individual images
  • Thicken hairlines
  • Blacken text, fills or lines
  • Make draft documents (remove pictures)
  • Garbage collection of PDF files
  • Change PDF version number
  • Copy unique IDs from one file to another, or remove an ID

Product Details

• For Windows, macOS and Linux (Other platforms, e.g Solaris or HP/UX by request)
• Comprehensive manual
• Generous discounts on multiple, or developer licenses by request.

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