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gettalong committed Dec 31, 2018
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**pdftk**

: Homepage: <https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/>\\
Version: 2.02\\
: Homepage: <https://gitlab.com/marcvinyals/pdftk>\\
Version: 3.0\\
Abilities: C

`pdftk` is probably one of the best known applications because, like `hexapdf` it allows for many
different operations on PDFs. It is based on the Java iText library which has been compiled to
native code using GCJ.
different operations on PDFs. It is based on the Java iText library. Prior version have been
compiled to native code using GCJ but GCJ was deprecated and this fork of pdftk now uses Java.

The application doesn't have options for optimizing a PDF file but it can be assumed that it
removes unused and deleted objects when invoked like `pdftk INPUT output OUTPUT`.

*Note* that GCJ was deprecated and newer versions of Ubuntu don't include the pdftk package
anymore!

**qpdf**

: Homepage: <http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/>\\
Version: 8.0.2\\
Version: 8.2.1\\
Abilities: C, CS

QPDF is a command line application for transforming PDF files written in C++.
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