PDF Tools

xpdf

A PDF viewer.

Pdftk is a simple command tool for doing every day things with PDF documents.

*Merge PDF documents
*Split PDF pages into a new document
*Decrypt input as necessary (password required)
*Encrypt output as desired
*Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data and/or Flatten Forms
*Apply a Background Watermark
*Report PDF on metrics, including metadata and bookmarks
*Update PDF Metadata
*Attach Files to PDF Pages or the PDF Document
*Unpack PDF Attachments
*Burst a PDF document into single pages
*Uncompress and re-compress page streams
*Repair corrupted PDF (where possible)

pdftohtml

Translates pdf files into HTML or XML formats, combined with png images. Supports encrypted pdf files.

pstotext

Extracts text (in the ISO 8859-1 character set) from a PostScript or PDF file.

pdfscreen

This package helps to generate pdf documents that are readable on screen and will fit the screen's aspect ratio. Also it can be used with various options to produce regular print versions of the same document without any extra effort. One important utility of this package is to generate slides for talks, seminars etc. It produces a pdf file which can be used for a slideshow on any machine which has a pdf viewer.
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htmldoc

This program takes Doc book/HTML as input and generates PDF/PS/indexed HTML as output. Very helpful to produce PDF documents from HTML.

htmldoc