On 2025-07-23, Richard Owlett <rowl...@access.net> wrote: >>> >>> For convenience of future readers - these tools have been suggested to >>> me in this thread. >>> >>>> mutool - all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files >>>> pdftk - Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor >>>> qpdf - PDF transformation software >>>> xpdf - Portable Document Format (PDF) file viewer for X (xpopple) >>>> pdfarranger - Application for PDF Merging, Rearranging, Splitting, and >>>> Cropping >>>> pdfsam - PDF Split and Merge >>>>> The poppler-utils package includes: >>>>> pdfseparate -- page extraction tool >>>>> pdftotext -- text extraction >>>>> pdftohtml -- PDF to HTML converter >>> >>> I'll try each under Debian 12.8 >>> I could not install pdftk. I'll retry when I have updated my Debian. >> >> Or you just print to file in any browser. >> > > Quoting myself ;} >> I wish to edit those 2 files. >
None of the tools you mention above can edit the extracted files. Any PDF editing is an inherent cludge.
