command line tools
pdfMachineEncrypt
A Windows command line tool for encrypting a PDF file.
USAGE
pdfMachineEncrypt /f filename.pdf /p openpass /o ownerpass /accesability y|n /print y|n /change y|n /notes y|n /copy y|n /form y|n /assemble y|n
where:
f - PDF filename, required: true
help - Help, required: false
o - Password to change the PDF security settings, required: false
p - Password to open the PDF for viewing, required: true
accessability - Security setting : Accessability, required: false
assemble - Security setting : document assembly, required: false
change - Security setting : change, required: false
copy - Security setting : Copy and extract, required: false
form - Security setting : Form fill or sign, required: false
notes - Security setting : add notes, required: false
print - Security setting : print, required: false
e.g.
pdfMachineEncrypt /f x.pdf /p mypass
pdfMachineEncrypt /f x.pdf /p mypass /o someotherpass /print n /copy n
pdfMachineStamp
A Windows command line tool for applying a text stamp or watermark to a PDF file.
USAGE
pdfMachineStamp /f filename.pdf /t "some text"
parameters:
color - Text color. Can be a name such as green, black, darkmagenta, cornflowerblue etc, or a RGB hex value such as #aabbcc
f - PDF filename, required.
font - Font name. Can be any Windows font.
help - Help
opacity - Stamp opacity between 0 (transparent) and 1 (opaque)
page - The page number to apply the stamp to. 0 means all pages.
pos - Position: topleft, topcenter, topright, centerleft, center, centerright, bottomleft, bottomcenter, bottomright
rot - Rotation in degrees
size - Font size in points
t - Stamp text, required.
x - Position X in points. If 'pos' given is used as an offset.
y - Position Y in points. If 'pos' given is used as an offset.
e.g.
pdfMachineStamp /f file.pdf /t "some text" /pos topcenter /color #fa0000
pdfMachineStamp /f file.pdf /t "some text" /pos center /rot 45 /font "Brush Script MT" /size 50 /color green /opacity 0.5 /page 1
pdfMachineSign
A Windows command line tool for digitally signing a PDF file using a certificate in the Windows certificate store.
USAGE
pdfMachineSign /f filename.pdf /sha1 thumbprint
parameters:
f - PDF filename, required.
sha1 - SHA1 thumbprint identifying this certificate. Use certmgr.msc to find, required.
reason - Reason for signing.
location - Location
page - The page number to put the signature on.
image-file - The image file. Can be JPEG, BMP, GIF.
show-cert-name - Text appearance - show certificate name, y|n
show-dist-name - Text appearance - show certificate distinguished name, y|n
show-location - Text appearance - show location, y|n
show-reason - Text appearance - show reason, y|n
show-date-time - Text appearance - show date time, y|n
show-date - Text appearance - show date, y|n
show-time - Text appearance - show time, y|n
position - Valid values are: topleft, topright, bottomleft, bottomright, center, centerleft, centerright, centertop, centerbottom.
x - Horizontal position in points. If 'position' is set, works as an offset.
y - Vertical position in points. If 'position' is set, works as an offset.
width - Width in points.
height - Height in points.
timestamp-url - URL of a RFC 3161 compliant timestamping server.
certified-permission - 0 - not certified (default), 1 - changes not allowed, 2 - changes to forms allowed, 3, - changes to annotations allowed.
help - Help
e.g.
pdfMachineSign /f file.pdf /sha1 aabbccddeeff00112233445566114455
pdfMachineSign /f file.pdf /sha1 aabbccddeeff00112233445566114455 /image-file C:\sig\sig.jpg /show-date y /position bottomright /width 200 /height 100
pdfMachineSplit
A Windows command line tool for splitting a PDF file into multiple files.
USAGE
USAGE:
pdfMachineSplit /f filename.pdf /autonum 1 /pages 1 /dir directory-to-save-to /out output-file-pattern
where:
autonum - Seed the auto numbering, defaults to 1, required: false
dir - Directory to save files, required: true
f - PDF filename, required: true
help - Help, required: false
out - Output file name pattern, see output pattern , required: true
pages - Pages per PDF, defaults to 1, required: false
e.g.
USAGE:
pdfMachineSplit /f filename.pdf /dir c:\tmp /out "out.pdf"
- produces out1.pdf, out2.pdf ....
USAGE:
pdfMachineSplit /f filename.pdf /dir c:\tmp /autonum 100 /out "out-{AUTONUM4}.pdf"
- produces out-0100.pdf, out-0101.pdf ....
USAGE:
pdfMachineSplit /f filename.pdf /dir c:\tmp /pages 2 /out "%Y-%m-%d {AUTONUM5}.pdf"
- produces '2018-09-25 00001.pdf', '2018-09-25 00002.pdf' ...
pdfMachineOCR
Perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on a PDF or images, inserting searchable hidden text. Optionally splitting the PDF into smaller files, based on a separator string. Also acquires images from TWAIN scanners and converts them to PDFs.
USAGE
Parameters:
f - Input PDF filename
out - Output PDF file name. Can be a pattern, see http://www.pdfmachine.com/pdfmachine/help/config_general.htm#outputname
image-file - Full path to an image file, or if prefixed with @ a text file where each line is a path to an image. The files are converted to a single PDF.
page-size - To be used in conjunction with /image-file or /scanner options. e.g. A4, A3, A2, A1, A0, Letter, Legal, Executive, Ledger, Tabloid. If not set the image dimensions are used for the page size.
scanner-name - Scanner name.
scanner-res - Scanner resolution.
scanner-pixel-type - Pixel type: BW, GRAY, RGB, CYMK, default
scanner-feeder - If set, the document feeder is used.
scanner-list - If set, lists all the scanners on this machine.
thumbs - Generate thumbnails. e.g. '/thumbs 200' generates images of width 200px.
no-ocr - If set, no OCR is performed.
jpeg-quality - The quality of JPEG encoding, between 0 - 100. Defaults to 95 which is high quality. Values over 95 show negligable quality improvement.
deskew - If set the images are deskewed.
out-dir - Directory to save files
delete-sep-page - If set, the separator pages are deleted.
sep - Separator string. Pages containing this text mark the point the file is to be split into several files.
autonum - Seed the auto numbering, defaults to 1
lang - OCR language. Defaults to english (eng). Other languages need appropriate language data files.
in-dir - Will process each PDF in this directory and move each processed file to the specified output directory (/out-dir).
e.g.
pdfMachineOCR /f filename.pdf
- applies OCR to filename.pdf
pdfMachineOCR /f filename.pdf /out "c:\tmp\out.pdf" /sep "*SEPARATOR*"
- applies OCR, then splits the PDF into smaller PDFs, based on what pages include the /sep string. produces out1.pdf, out2.pdf ....
pdfMachineOCR /in-dir C:\tmp\scans /out-dir c:\tmp\scans-ocr
- applies OCR to each file in C:\tmp\scans then moves that file to the C:\tmp\scans-ocr directory
pdfMachineOCR /image-file @c:\tmp\images.txt /out c:\tmp\out.pdf /page-size A4
- Each line in images.txt is a file path to an image file. The image files are placed into the PDF, one on each page. OCR is applied.
pdfMachineOCR /scanner-list
- list all TWAIN scanners found
pdfMachineOCR /scanner-name "HP OfficeJet 6950 TWAIN" /out "c:\tmp\scan %Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S.pdf" /deskew
- Acquire images from scanner, deskew them, apply OCR, produce pdf with current timestamp.
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Please contact
craig@broadgun.com
if you would like to use this tool.