PdfToolCli

PdfToolCli is the command line tool that simply rotate and select pages in PDF documents, also this tool is able to merge multiple PDF files.

This is .NET Core tool.

How to use

Rotate

Rotate all page

Rotate all pages in target PDF document to specified angle.

Syntax

$ pdftool rotate all <PdfFilePath> <Angle>

Argument	Description
PdfFilePath	Target PDF file path.
Angle	Rotate right: 90, 180, 270. Rotate left: -90, -180, -270.

Options

Otion	Function
-o, --output	Output file path that you want to save to.

Example

Rotate all pages to left 90° and save to 'output.pdf'.

$ pdftool rotate all MyPdf.pdf -90 -o output.pdf

Rotate specified pages

Rotate specified pages in target PDF document to specified angle.

Syntax

$ pdftool rotate pages <PdfFilePath> <pageNum1:angle1,pageNum2:angle2,...>

Argument	Description
PdfFilePath	Target PDF file path.
pageNum:angle	Rotate 'pageNum'-th page to 'angle'°.

Options

Otion	Function
-o, --output	Output file path that you want to save to.

Example

Rotate 1,2,5th page to right 180° and rotate 3rd page to left 90° and save to 'output.pdf'.

$ pdftool rotate pages MyPdf.pdf 1:180,2:180,3:-90,5:180 -o output.pdf

or

$ pdftool rotate pages MyPdf.pdf 1-2:180,3:-90,5:180 -o output.pdf

Select

Select specified pages

Select and save specified page in target PDF document.

Syntax

$ pdftool select pages <PdfFilePath> <pageNum1,pageNum2,...>

Argument	Description
PdfFilePath	Target PDF file path.
pageNum	Page number that you want to select.

Options

Otion	Function
-o, --output	Output file path that you want to save to.

Example

Select 1,2,3,5th page and save to 'output.pdf'.

$ pdftool select pages MyPdf.pdf 1,2,3,5 -o output.pdf

or

$ pdftool select pages MyPdf.pdf 1-3,5 -o output.pdf

Info

Show PDF file information

Show information about target PDF document.

Syntax

$ pdftool info count <PdfFilePath>

Argument	Description
PdfFilePath	Target PDF file path.

Options

No options.

Example

Show page count of target PDF document.

$ pdftool info count MyPdf.pdf

result

'MyPdf.pdf' has 10 pages.

Merge

Merge multiple PDF files

Merge multiple PDF files and save.

Syntax

$ pdftool merge files <PdfFilePath1,PdfFilePath2,PdfFilePath3,...>

Argument	Description
List of PdfFilePath	Comma separated list of target files you want to merge.

Options

Otion	Function
-o, --output	Output file path that you want to save to.

Example

Merge 3 PDF files(MyPdf1.pdf, MyPdf2.pdf and MyPdf3.pdf) and save it to output.pdf.

$ pdftool merge files MyPdf1.pdf,MyPdf2.pdf,MyPdf3.pdf -o output.pdf