Java PDF Combiner

Combines multiple pdf files into one pdf file.

Usage

Package

Package the jar using mvn package and run the jar with jar-with-dependencies appended to the name.

Run with command line

Run using java -jar [name of jar with dependencies].jar [space separated paths to pdfs] [final combined pdf name]

Example java -jar java-pdf-combiner-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar "pdf1.pdf" "pdf2.pdf" ... "final.pdf""

Run with config json file

For more features & control, the program can be run with a json file with the format given below.

To run

java -jar java-pdf-combiner-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar config.json

Sample json

{
  "outputFile": "Path to the file/filename.pdf",
  "fileConfigs": [
    {
      "filePath": "Path to pdf to merge/file.pdf",
      "excludePages": [1, 2, 3],
      "includePagaes": ["3 - 5"]
    }
  ]
}

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outputFile	Path to the output combined file. Should be unique as it'll replace any existing file and must end with .pdf
fileConfigs	Array of file configurations of the pdf files to be combined with, in order of desired combination.
filePath (fileConfigs)	Path to the pdf file used in combination
excludePages (fileConfigs)	Array of pages to be excluded*. For the particular combined pdf.
includePages(fileConfigs)	Array of pages to be included*. If present, excludePages won't be used.

* Page number format (includePages & excludePages)

Pages can be inputted in 2 ways:

• As a integer array e.g [1, 2, 3...]
• As a string array of hyphen separated pages e.g ["1 - 3", "9 - 11"]
• Combination of both