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| PDFsam Basic | |
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 PDFsam Basic 3.3.2 with merge PDF module opened | |
| Developer | Andrea Vacondio |
| Release | June 29, 2008 |
| Stable release | 6.0.5[1]
/ 5 August 2026 |
| Written in | Java, JavaFX |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | Java |
| Type | PDF utility |
| License | AGPLv3 for v3, GPLv2 for previous versions 2.x |
| Website | pdfsam |
| Repository | github |
PDFsam Basic or PDF Split and Merge is a free and open-source cross-platform desktop application to split, merge, extract pages, rotate and mix PDF documents.[2][3] PDFsam uses a freemium model and encourages buying the full version with popups.
Distribution system
[edit]PDFsam Basic is a desktop application freely accessible both as source and compiled code. It is available as a MSI package for 32-bit and 64-bit MS Windows, .dmg for macOS, .deb package for Debian based Linux distributions, and ZIP bundle for power users' convenience.
Functionalities
[edit]- 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 (Acrobat forms) or an outline (bookmarks) and it can generate a table of contents, normalize pages size and page margins 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 bookmark 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 (i.e. Mb).
- 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
[edit]PDFsam Basic is written in Java and JavaFX. PDFsam Basic relies on Sejda SDK, an open source and task oriented Java library to edit PDF files and SAMBox, a PDFBox fork.
See also
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References
[edit]- ↑ "Release 6.0.5". 5 August 2026. Retrieved 6 August 2026.
- ↑ Wolski, David. "Toolbox: PDF-Werkstatt mit PDFsam". c't Magazin (in German). Archived from the original on 2021-10-22. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ "Split or Merge PDFs with PDFsam Basic, an open source program for Windows, Linux and macOS". gHacks Technology News. 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
External links
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