PDFsam Basic or PDF Split and Merge is a free and open-source

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desktop application to split, merge, extract pages, rotate and mix PDF documents.

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PDFsam Basic is a desktop application freely accessible both as

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code. It is available as a MSI package for 32-bit and

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MS Windows,

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, .deb package for Debian based

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distributions, and ZIP bundle for

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' convenience.

Functionalities

* Merge PDF files selecting entire documents or subsections of them. It provides a number of settings to let the user decide what to do in case the original PDF files contain Acro Forms or an outline (bookmarks) and it can generate a

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, normalize pages size and add blank pages. *Split PDF files in a number of ways: ** After every page, even pages or odd pages ** After a given set of page numbers ** Every ''n'' pages ** By

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level ** By size, where the generated files will roughly have the specified size * Rotate PDF files where multiple files can be rotated, either every page or a selected set of pages * Extract pages from multiple PDF files * Mix PDF files where a number of PDF files are merged, taking pages alternately from them * Save and restore of the workspace

Architecture

PDFsam Basic is written in

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. PDFsam Basic relies on Sejda SDK, an open source and task oriented Java library to edit PDF files and SAMBox, a PDFBox

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* * {{PDF software Free PDF software Free software programmed in Java (programming language)

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