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PDF Handler is a pdf command line utility.

Common execution format is

c:\Pdfhandler.exe <<action name>> << Options specific to the action  >>

The Pdfhandler.exe will do the below operations,

1. PDF Merge.
    It will merge the given pdf documents into single one.

    Format :
        c:\Pdfhandler.exe merge <<file names separated by space>>

        The final name will be name of the target file name.
    Ex:

        c:\Pdfhandler.exe merge F:\Sekar\dev\Books\DesignJava.pdf F:\Spring_Tutorial.pdf merge.pdf


2. Pdf informations 
    It will display informations related the given pdf documents

    Format:
        c:\Pdfhandler.exe info <<PDF file names>>
    Ex:
        c:\Pdfhandler.exe info F:\Sekar\dev\Books\DesignJava.pdf F:\Spring_Tutorial.pdf


3. Security (Encryption/Decryption)

    It will secure your given pdf file by doing the encryption and decryption operations

    Format:
        Decryption:
            c:\Pdfhandler.exe decrypt <<Encrypted Source pdf file name>> <<Password>> <<Decrypted output file name>>
        Encryption:
            c:\Pdfhandler.exe encrypt <<Source pdf file name>> <<Password>> <<Encrypted output file name>>
    Ex:
        Decryption:
            c:\Pdfhandler.exe decrypt F:\Spring_Tutorial.pdf hello h:\decryptedspringtutorial.pdf
        Encryption:
            c:\Pdfhandler.exe decrypt F:\Spring_Tutorial.pdf hello h:\encryptedspringtutorial.pdf


4. Document splitter
    This action will create individual pdf documents from the given single document.
    Based on the given page limits it will create the sub documents.
    Format:
        c:\Pdfhandler.exe split <<Source File name>> <<page range limits separated by space>>
    Ex:
        c:\Pdfhandler.exe split F:\Sekar\dev\Books\designjava.pdf 1 23 s34-37 40-45

        The above command will create below documents with the pages of original document,
            1.pdf
            2.pdf
            34.pdf
            35.pdf
            36.pdf
            37.pdf
            40-45.pdf
            It will use the range values as new document's file names.
            The "s" prefix indicates that from page 34-37 will be splitted into single pages.
            If you didn't mention it in prefix then by default it will considered as normal page range for a single document (Ex : 40-45.pdf).