Collect

Create a custom PDF page sequence.
Arrange your pages in any order you like.
Pages may appear multiple times.
Have a look at some examples.

Usage

pdfcpu collect inFile [outFile] --pages

Flags

name	description	required
p(ages)	selected pages	yes

Common Flags

Arguments

name	description	required	default
inFile	PDF input file, use `-` to read from stdin	yes
outFile	PDF output file, use `-` to write to stdout	no	inFile

Examples

Create a custom page collection from in.pdf and write the result to out.pdf. Begin with 3 instances of page 1 then append the rest of the file excluding the last page:

$ pdfcpu collect in.pdf out.pdf --pages 1,1,1,2-l-1 
writing sequ.pdf ...

Collect selected pages from stdin and write the result to stdout:

$ aws s3 cp s3://acme-dataroom/deck.pdf - \
   | pdfcpu collect --pages 1,3,5-7 - - \
   | aws s3 cp - s3://acme-dataroom/executive-extract.pdf