Pdf Handler (Command line utility)

Pdf Handler

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfhandler/

This is my latest project in java.

Its a small command line utitlity to process pdf documents.

Its developed with the help of iText pdf APIs.

Right now I have added few features with it and released the initial version of 11.09 ( Don't panic with the version number. Its combinations of year and month).

To run this utility just follow the below format,

 Pdfhandler.exe <<action name>> << Options specific to the action >>

The exe is mainly for windows users.

If you are using some other OS then just make use of the JAR file. which is in the released zip file.

The features are,

• Document Merge

                 You can merge any number of documents into single document within a fraction of seconds.
     
         Command Format :
            Pdfhandler.exe merge <<file names separated by space>>
           
            The final name will be name of the target file name.
        Ex:
       
            Pdfhandler.exe merge F:\Sekar\dev\Books\DesignJava.pdf F:\Spring_Tutorial.pdf merge.pdf

• Doument Splitter

          If you are feeling that your pdf documents contains too much number of pages then you can split the document into so many number of pages and start to read. This feature is very user friendly too.
       It supports page numbers as its range values. Based on the given page ranges the new documents will be created.

        Command Format :
            Pdfhandler.exe split <<Source File name>> <<page range limits separated by space>>
        Ex:
            Pdfhandler.exe split F:\Sekar\dev\Books\designjava.pdf 1 23 s34-37 40-45
          
            The above command will create below documents with the pages of original document,
                1.pdf
                23.pdf
                34.pdf
                35.pdf
                36.pdf
                37.pdf
                40-45.pdf
                It will use the range values as new document's file names.
                The "s" prefix indicates that from page 34-37 will be splitted into single pages.
                If you didn't mention it in prefix then by default it will considered as normal page range for a single document (Ex : 40-45.pdf). (Right now the utility will act like that. Latter on I will modify this with additional features.)

• Encryption / Decryption

          Some of them are like to protect their documents using some passwords.
          If you want to protect your pdf files by encyption and decryption.
          The encrypted document can be opened with the password only.
           Command Format :
           Decryption:
                Pdfhandler.exe decrypt <<Encrypted Source pdf file name>> <<Password>> <<Decrypted output file name>>
            Encryption:
                Pdfhandler.exe encrypt <<Source pdf file name>> <<Password>> <<Encrypted output file name>>


      Note: You can also mention the output folder as last parameter. If you are not given then it will use the current folder as output folder.


        

•  Document Signer

            This action will create signed pdf documents from the given signed/unsigned pdfs.
           
        Command Format :
            Pdfhandler.exe sign << input.properties file>>
        Ex:
            Pdfhandler.exe sign input.properties
           
            The above command will create signed documents based on the given properties file.
            Sample properties file is also shipped with the build.
            Note:
                To sign a document the end users needs to create a keystore file using the java keytool.
                To know more about keytool and keystore file please go through the below link,
               
                http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/windows/keytool.html
               
                If you want to learn more on this please search this on web.