guide:pdf

PDF files

Open the PDF in LibreOffice, choose Tools → Redact. You can then export it within the same menu.

  • pdfarranger – arrange pdfs, export subsets of pages and stuff.
  • PDFMod – not as good as pdfarranger, use the latter ;) simple GTK GUI for shuffling PDFs around.
    • Shift+Click does rectangular selections. That's a super weird design decision and disqualifies that tool for any serious usage.
  • pdftricks – uses GhostScript for easy manipulations.
gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

You can use the following parameters for -dPDFSETTINGS:

-dPDFSETTINGS=/screen (screen-view-only quality, 72 dpi images)
-dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook (low quality, 150 dpi images)
-dPDFSETTINGS=/printer (high quality, 300 dpi images)
-dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress (high quality, color preserving, 300 dpi imgs)
-dPDFSETTINGS=/default (almost identical to /screen)
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