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pystitcher

PDF stitcher for humans.

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Merging PDFs is easy

pdftk 1.pdf 2.pdf cat output final.pdf

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Except when its not

(Managing bookmarks)

pdftk 1.pdf 2.pdf cat output final.pdf
pdftk dump_data final.pdf > bookmarks.txt
# More code here to add more bookmarks
pdftk update_info_utf8 bookmarks.txt final.pdf final2.pdf

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pdfmerge

• unmaintained 😢

  pdfmerge [-o FILE] PATH[RULE[, RULE ...]]

Where RULE=

[START][..][END][ROTATE]

Also no bookmarks 😢

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What if?

# Super Potato Book

# Volume 1

[Part 1](1.pdf)

# Volume 2

[Part 3](2.pdf)

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Show original PDFs

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Metadata!

title: Super Jelly
Author: Nemo
keywords: potato, jelly
# Super Potato Book

# Volume 1

[Part 1](1.pdf)

# Volume 2

[Part 3](2.pdf)

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Existing Bookmarks?

existing_bookmarks: remove
# Super Potato Book

# Volume 1

[Part 1](1.pdf)

# Volume 2

[Part 3](2.pdf)

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Existing Bookmarks?

existing_bookmarks: flatten
# Super Potato Book

# Volume 1

[Part 1](1.pdf)

# Volume 2

[Part 3](2.pdf)

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Keep Bookmarks?

existing_bookmarks: keep
# Super Potato Book

# Volume 1

[Part 1](1.pdf)

# Volume 2

[Part 3](2.pdf)

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