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PDF Handler is a pdf command line utility.
Common execution format is
c:\pdfh.exe <<action name>> << Options specific to the action >>
The pdfh.exe will do the below operations,
1. PDF Merge.
It will merge the given pdf documents into single one.
Format :
c:\pdfh.exe merge <<file names separated by space>>
The final name will be name of the target file name.
Ex:
c:\pdfh.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:\pdfh.exe info <<PDF file names>>
Ex:
c:\pdfh.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:\pdfh.exe decrypt <<Encrypted Source pdf file name>> <<Password>> <<Decrypted output file name>>
Encryption:
c:\pdfh.exe encrypt <<Source pdf file name>> <<Password>> <<Encrypted output file name>>
Ex:
Decryption:
c:\pdfh.exe decrypt F:\Spring_Tutorial.pdf hello h:\decryptedspringtutorial.pdf
Encryption:
c:\pdfh.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:\pdfh.exe split <<Source File name>> <<page range limits separated by space>>
Ex:
c:\pdfh.exe split F:\Sekar\dev\Books\designjava.pdf 1 23 34-37 40-45
The above command will create below documents with the pages of original document,
1.pdf
2.pdf
34-37.pdf
40-45.pdf
It will use the range values as new document's file names.