As usual Linux has the most elegant and simple solution to a problem that should be easy to perform in Windows as well.<\/p>\n
I simply want to combine multiple PDFs into one and not have to “upload” my documents to an online service to do so.<\/p>\n
The simplest solution I found was to use Windows Subsystem for Linux<\/a> (WSL) which worked a treat.<\/p>\n # Install software that includes pdfunite utility # Install rename support # Change to directory where PDF files reside # Copy all needed files to temp directory # Change to the temp directory # Replace all spaces in filenames with underscores # Combine all the PDFs in alphnumeric order Poppler-utils<\/a> is a collection of command-line tools used to view, manipulate, and convert PDF documents, built on the Poppler<\/a> PDF rendering library.<\/p>\n The pdfunite <\/strong>utility included in poppler-utils merges multiple PDF files into one.<\/p>\n Similar outcome can be had in macOS via Homebrew<\/a>: As usual Linux has the most elegant and simple solution to a problem that should be easy to perform in Windows as well. I simply want to combine multiple PDFs into one and not have to “upload” my documents to an online service to do so. The simplest solution I found was to use Windows … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n# How to combine PDF files on Windows 11 using WSL (Ubuntu)<\/p>\n
\nsudo apt install poppler-utils<\/p>\n
\nsudo apt install rename<\/p>\n
\ncd \/mnt\/c\/Users\/USERNAME\/Downloads\/PDFs\/<\/p>\n
\ncp *.pdf ..\/TEMP<\/p>\n
\ncd ..\/TEMP<\/p>\n
\nrename 's\/ \/_\/g' *<\/p>\n
\npdfunite $(ls -v *.pdf) combined.pdf
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nbrew install poppler<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"