#Organise pages in pdf free how to#

#Organise pages in pdf free how to#

Our PDFtk Server manual explains how to describe page ranges - they are very flexible. You specify these ranges after the shuffle keyword, and you can have more than two ranges. The shuffle feature works by taking one page at a time from each of the input page ranges and assembling them into a new PDF. Pdftk A=odd_pages.pdf B=even_pages.pdf shuffle A Bend-1 output collated_pages.pdf If your even pages are in reverse order, you can reverse its page range: Pdftk A=odd_pages.pdf B=even_pages.pdf shuffle A B output collated_pages.pdf Then you can collate them into a single document like this: Say you have two PDFs: even_pages.pdf and odd_pages.pdf. PDFtk has a special feature that we added specifically to solve this problem of arranging scanned pages: shuffle. Most Linux distributions maintain a 'pdftk' binary package you can install. You can download free installers for Windows and Mac OS X from our site. PDFtk Server is free (as in freedom) software that you can use to manipulate PDF documents. And the even pages are in reverse order! How can you collate these pages into a single, right-reading document? These instructions will show you how to do this with our command-line tool PDFtk Server.

Now you have two PDFs: one of odd pages and one of even pages. You scanned a two-sided document by first scanning all the odd pages and then scanning all the even pages. Shuffle the even and odd pages you get from scanning a two-sided document using PDFtk Server.