PDFTK Alternative

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We've been using a free commandline utility called PDFTK which we make a system call to from a Ruby on Rails app to split PDFs into individual pages. However, it only supports PDF Version 1.4 and back.

Can anyone recommend another utility or gem/Rails plugin to similarly manipulate later version PDFs?

Thanks

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ruby-on-railsrubypdf
What problems have you had with PDF documents >1.4? I have used pdftk succesfully on PDF up to 1.7. It does seem to have some problems with compressed PDF (Clean up, Object compression options='compress entire file' in acrobat 8 pdf optimizer) - danio

2 Answers

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pdftk is built on iText (dated 2002). It should be possible to tweak it so that it builds with the latest version of iText, or alternatively install java and call iText directly.

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There is another compilation v2.01. I have tried with v1.5 specs PDF file and it works.

Get it at: http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/