PDF Editing Features (Full features list)

• Quality Split and Merge, keeping bookmarks. Extract pages. Split on Bookmarks.
• All operations can apply to any page range, e.g 1-3,1-end or 6-30even
• Linearize (Fast web view)
• Create new PDFs NEW
• Losslessly squeeze files to reduce their size
• Encrypt and Decrypt (including AES 128 and AES 256 encryption)
• Read and set info and metadata from a PDF file. Set and read XMP Metadata NEW
• Scale, rotate, crop and flip pages. Scale pages to fit.
• Copy, Remove and Add bookmarks
• Stamp logos, shapes, watermarks, page numbers and multiline text. Transparency.
• Supports Unicode UTF8 text input and output
• Make PDF-based presentations
• Put multiple pages on a single page
• Add, remove and manipulate annotations
• Add and remove file attachments to document or page. Extract attachments NEW
• Thicken hairlines, blacken text, make draft documents
• Reconstruct malformed files
• Detect missing fonts, low resolution images. Remove images NEW
• Read commands from a control file
• Add printer's marks
• Set the open action of a PDF
• Add, modify, remove, or print page labels.
• Combine multiple operations in a single command

Praise from our customers

Great job, congratulations! This is exactly what we needed. And great support from your side. It's hard to find these days!

— Veit G., PFERD GmbH

I would be very happy to recommend the Coherent PDF Command Line Tools to anyone considering duplicating our process or creating their own.

— Pete V., Collier County Elections Office