Combine PDFs

Storing and archiving of invoices can be very tiring.
From each contract I receive for each month a PDF.
During a year 12 pdfs from jan. – dec. * amount of contracts = hundreds of PDFs.

Yeap solution is to merging multiple pdf files into one:)

PDFtk in an Open Source tool for manipulating PDF documents.

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apt-get update && apt-get install pdftk

Example:

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pdftk 01.pdf 02.pdf 03.pdf 04.pdf 05.pdf 06.pdf 07.pdf 08.pdf 09.pdf 10.pdf 11.pdf 12.pdf output 2012.pdf

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32274 Sep  7 13:45 01.pdf
32507 Sep  7 13:45 02.pdf
32587 Sep  7 13:45 03.pdf
32751 Sep  7 13:43 04.pdf
32915 Sep  7 13:43 05.pdf
32993 Sep  7 13:43 06.pdf
32878 Sep  7 13:43 07.pdf
32826 Sep  7 13:43 08.pdf
32838 Sep  7 13:43 09.pdf
32935 Oct  1 11:33 10.pdf
32838 Jan 11 13:09 11.pdf
32935 Jan 11 12:29 12.pdf
 
366284 Mar  8 15:56 2012.pdf

At the end you have a single PDF file on all your single PDFs.

pdftk can more, it can extract single pages of a big PDF info a new one.

Example: PDF contains 7 pages, but you need only the first one and the last one so you extract them and build a new PDF with page one and seven.

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pdftk 2010.pdf cat 1 7 output mynewfile.pdf