The easiest way to split, merge or edit pdf files in Ubuntu is to use pdftk utility. This rather old (latest version was released in 2006) but still simple and powerful program can be installed in Ubuntu (Debian or any deb-family Linux distribution) by the following command in terminal: sudo aptitude install pdftk. World's #1 PDF SDK Library for Web, Mobile, Server, Desktop It is PDF Split and Merge created by Andrea Vacondio. This application comes in two versions and we are going to use and review the free version. Let us start. Downloading PDFSAM This pretty simple and easy. Download it here by clicking on link below. Download Looks and Performance Here comes the review of this software. Next, update your Ubuntu System. apt update. After successfully updating your system, install the pdftk tool as shown below. apt install pdftk. After the installation of pdftk is complete, you can now invoke the pdftk command to merge files. The syntax is as shown. pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf cat output merged_output.pdf. Drag and drop your PDF into the PDF Splitter. Choose to 'Extract every page into a PDF' or 'Select pages to extract'. For the latter, select the pages you wish to extract. Click 'Split PDF', wait for the process to finish and download. How To Split PDF How To Split PDF File Splitter - Split PDF, Word, Excel, JPG, and PPT With the split by size module you can tell PDFsam Basic to divide a PDF file into smaller ones of a given size. An example can be a 10Mb PDF split into 3 files with the size of 4Mb, 4Mb and 2Mb. Given the nature of the PDF files it is not always possible to get an accurate result. PDFsam is a free PDF editing suite that merges, extracts, rotates, and splits PDFs. The split options are almost identical to the ones in Adobe Acrobat (below), but this program is 100 percent free to use. You can split the PDF after every page so that you get a separate PDF for each page in the document. Split your file with pdfsam: 1 page = 1 file on disk (Format doesn't matter. Choose one that ImageMagick knows. I'd just take PS or PDF. For each page, crop the first half and put it to a file named $ {PageNumber}A Crop the second half and put it to a file named $ {PageNumber}B. You get 1A.pdf, 1B.pdf, 2A.pdf, 2B.pdf, etc. qpdf --empty concatenated.pdf --pages split- * .pdf -- This is what qpdf does by default. The --empty option tells qpdf to start with an empty file. The two dashes ( --) at the end signals that there are no more files to process. Splitting PDF file using the Document Viewer. Open PDF file. Click Print… or CTRL+P. Choose Print to File. Click File for output file name. Choose Pages then enter the page number you want to split. For example page 10 enter 10, pages 5 to 10 enter 5-10. Click Print. Document Viewer - Print. What's new in PDF Arranger 1.8.2: Fix 2 bugs in scaled pages export (#599) As its name suggests, PDF Arranger is a an app that helps you manage PDFs by (re)arranging their contents. It's a free, open-source, and cross-platform (also works on Windows), GTK app built with Python that allows users to merge and