Merge And Split PDF In PHP Using PDFtk

Merge a group of PDF files to a single PDF file without disturbing the contents using PDFtk.

• PDFtk runs on a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, FreeBSD, and Solaris.
• It does not require Acrobat and allows you to manipulate PDF easily and freely.

What All You Can Do in PHP Using PDFtk

• Merge PDF documents to one.
• Rotate PDF Pages or documents.
• Split the pages of the PDF into a new document.
• Encrypt the output as desired.
• Decrypt the Input as necessary but requires a password
• Background watermark or a foreground stamp can be applied
• Report on PDF metrics can be generated such as metadata, bookmarks, and page labels.
• Update PDF metadata.
• Attach numerous files to the PDF document.
• Compress a PDF document into a single page.

Under the GPL, PDFtk is licensed for the public.

Download Link: https://github.com/bensquire/php-pdtfk-toolkit

Examples:

You can provide two or more PDF files as arguments to create a single PDF file as output.
Merge two or more PDFs into a new PDF file with all the original contents

• pdftk example1.pdf example2.pdf example3.pdf cat output result.pdf

Rotate the first page of a PDF to 90 degrees clockwise

• pdftk in.pdf cat 1E 2-end output out.pdf

Rotate all the pages of the PDF document by 180 degrees

• pdftk in.pdf cat 1-endS output out.pdf

Report on PDF document metadata, bookmarks and page labels

• pdftk mydoc.pdf dump_data output report.txt