Trim

Generate a new PDF containing only the selected pages of inFile.

trim removes pages from the document by page selection. It does not crop page content, change page boxes, or remove white margins on a page. Use crop for changing the visible page area.

The output keeps the selected pages in their original order and writes them to outFile. If outFile is omitted, inFile is overwritten.

Have a look at some examples.

Usage

pdfcpu trim inFile [outFile] [flags]

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

Restrictions

The following PDF elements are not carried over into the trimmed document:

Annotations
Outlines
Struct Trees
Forms

Examples

Get rid of unwanted blank pages:

$ pdfcpu trim --pages even test.pdf test_trimmed.pdf

Create a single page PDF file for a specific page number:

$ pdfcpu trim -p 1 test.pdf firstPage.pdf

Get rid of the catalog and trailing index:

$ pdfcpu trim book.pdf essence.pdf --pages '!2-4,!12-'

Trim a streamed PDF and upload the result:

$ aws s3 cp s3://acme-cases/filing.pdf - \
   | pdfcpu trim --pages 1-12 - - \
   | aws s3 cp - s3://acme-cases/filing-trimmed.pdf