PDF Split and Merge, a free utility for PDF manipulations. It is also called as PDFSam, which can merge multiple PDF documents into a single document and vice versa (i.e., splitting the single PDF into multiple PDF’s), change the order of the pages in the PDF and interestingly you can merge two files that has alternate pages into a single PDF in the correct order.
Merge Multiple PDF’s into a Single PDF
To merge multiple PDF files into a single PDF, click the “Merge/Extract” plugin from the left panel of the PDFSam. Click “Add” button on the right window and start adding the files that you would like to merge into one. Click the “Browse” button to specify the destination file location and click “Run“. PDFSam will merge all the inputted PDF’s into one single PDF and stores at the specified location.
Merge Specific pages from the multiple PDFs into a single PDF
At some situations you might want only the specific pages from multiple PDF’s to be merged into a single PDF. To that, under the “Merge/Extract” plugin – specify the specific page or a range of pages for each added PDF (as given in the screenshot below).
Splitting PDF
The Split PDF plugin of PDFSam allows you to split PDFs into multiple files. Use the Add button for adding the PDF and choose the options – For example, you can bursts the PDFs into single page PDF files or you can specify the page from where the split should begin.
Reorder pages in a PDF
At some situation, you might want to reorder the pages in a PDF. For example, you might have scanned and created PDF in a wrong order – which you can reorder using PDFSam. To do that, click the “Visual reorder” plugin from the left panel. Click the “Open” button on the right window and add your PDF. In few seconds, PDFSam will preview the thumbnails of the pages – which you can drag and reorder. You can also rotate or delete the thumbnails to create a final PDF in correct order.
Rotate the pages in PDF
As the name says, you can easily rotate the pages in a PDF. Just click the “Rotate” plugin on the left pane and click the “Add” button to add the PDF. Choose the options below to rotate the pages at 90 or 180 or 270 degrees. You can choose which pages to be rotated – even pages of a PDF or odd pages of a PDF.
Alternate Mix
Imagine, you have one PDF that contain only the Even pages of the document and another PDF that contain only the Odd pages of the document. Alternate Mix plugin of PDFSam will allow you to merge those two PDFs into a single PDF (i.e., merges the alternative pages of both the PDF and creates a PDF in correct order)
Visual Document Composer
PDFSam’s visual document composer works much similar to visual reorder, but this feature lets you to visualize pages of multiple PDFs and lets you to compose a new PDF out of it.
For easy PDF manipulations, PDFSam is must try – a free utility can be downloaded here.
