Merging Pdf Files

This ship service is near combining pdf files. It complements two before posts on splitting pdf files - part 1, and 2.

I am using a tool named SimpleScan to scan inwards multiples pages of a document. Each page is scanned into a assort pdf file. I must discovery a trend to run upward the pdf files together into 1 unmarried pdf.

You tin role either the pdftk command, or the gs ascendence to merge pdf files. You may retrieve that they are the same commands you lot would role to divide pdf files. In the examples below, the input files are T4a.pdf, T4b.pdf, as well as T4c.pdf; the merged output file is combined.pdf.

• pdftk

   $ pdftk T4a.pdf T4b.pdf T4c.pdf output combined.pdf 

• gs (GhostScript)

   $ gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sOutputFile=combined.pdf T4a.pdf T4b.pdf T4c.pdf  GPL Ghostscript 9.05 (2012-02-08) Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved. This software comes amongst NO WARRANTY: run into the file PUBLIC for details. Processing pages 1 through 4. Page 1 Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019003l.pfb... 4247256 2644865 2257128 952885 iii done. Loading NimbusSanL-Bold font from /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019004l.pfb... 4288248 2754288 2277312 983470 iii done. Loading NimbusMonL-Regu font from /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n022003l.pfb... 4331192 2899511 2438784 1137910 iii done. Page two Loading NimbusSanL-BoldItal font from /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019024l.pfb... 4370920 2866410 2479152 934054 iii done. Loading NimbusSanL-ReguItal font from /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019023l.pfb... 4410584 2982313 2499336 1004810 iii done. Page iii Page iv Processing pages 1 through 4. Page 1 Page two Page iii Page iv Processing pages 1 through 4. Page 1 Page two Page iii Page iv 

P.S. You tin also merge pdf files using ImageMagick. Refer to my post.

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