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    "mode": "man",
    "parameter": "pdfunite",
    "section": "1",
    "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdfunite/1/json",
    "generated": "2026-06-03T01:32:42Z",
    "synopsis": "pdfunite [options] PDF-sourcefile1..PDF-sourcefilen PDF-destfile",
    "sections": {
        "NAME": {
            "content": "pdfunite - Portable Document Format (PDF) page merger\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SYNOPSIS": {
            "content": "pdfunite [options] PDF-sourcefile1..PDF-sourcefilen PDF-destfile\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "DESCRIPTION": {
            "content": "pdfunite  merges several PDF (Portable Document Format) files in order of their occurrence on\ncommand line to one PDF result file.\n\nNeither of the PDF-sourcefile1 to PDF-sourcefilen should be encrypted.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "OPTIONS": {
            "content": "",
            "subsections": [
                {
                    "name": "-v",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-v"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-h -help --help",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-h",
                    "long": "--help"
                }
            ]
        },
        "EXAMPLE": {
            "content": "pdfunite sample1.pdf sample2.pdf sample.pdf\n\nmerges all pages from sample1.pdf and sample2.pdf (in that order) and creates sample.pdf\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "AUTHOR": {
            "content": "The pdfunite software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog,  LLC  and  copy‐\nright 2005-2011 The Poppler Developers - http://poppler.freedesktop.org\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SEE ALSO": {
            "content": "pdfdetach(1),    pdffonts(1),    pdfimages(1),   pdfinfo(1),   pdftocairo(1),   pdftohtml(1),\npdftoppm(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1) pdfseparate(1), pdfsig(1)\n\n\n\n15 September 2011                              pdfunite(1)",
            "subsections": []
        }
    },
    "summary": "pdfunite - Portable Document Format (PDF) page merger",
    "flags": [
        {
            "flag": "-v",
            "long": null,
            "arg": null,
            "description": ""
        },
        {
            "flag": "-h",
            "long": "--help",
            "arg": null,
            "description": ""
        }
    ],
    "examples": [
        "pdfunite sample1.pdf sample2.pdf sample.pdf",
        "merges all pages from sample1.pdf and sample2.pdf (in that order) and creates sample.pdf"
    ],
    "see_also": [
        {
            "name": "pdfdetach",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdfdetach/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pdffonts",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdffonts/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pdfimages",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdfimages/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pdfinfo",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdfinfo/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pdftocairo",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdftocairo/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pdftohtml",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdftohtml/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pdftoppm",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdftoppm/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pdftops",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdftops/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pdftotext",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdftotext/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pdfseparate",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdfseparate/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pdfsig",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdfsig/1/json"
        }
    ],
    "tldr": {
        "source": "official",
        "description": "PDF merging utility.",
        "examples": [
            {
                "description": "Merge 2 PDFs into a single PDF",
                "command": "pdfunite {{path/to/fileA.pdf}} {{path/to/fileB.pdf}} {{path/to/merged_output.pdf}}"
            },
            {
                "description": "Merge a directory of PDFs into a single PDF",
                "command": "pdfunite {{path/to/directory/*.pdf}} {{path/to/merged_output.pdf}}"
            }
        ]
    }
}