PDFsam Basic

PDFsam Basic is a free and open source desktop application to split, merge, extract pages from, mix and rotate PDF files. Files are processed on your computer and nothing is uploaded.

• Merge whole documents or page ranges, keeping or rebuilding bookmarks, handling forms and adding a table of contents
• Split after given pages, every n pages, by bookmark level or by file size
• Extract pages, rotate pages, and mix two or more documents page by page
• Insert the pages of one document into another, repeated every n pages

This is a community package of PDFsam Basic. It downloads the official portable Linux build from the project's GitHub releases at install time and runs it unmodified, with the Java runtime it bundles. PDFsam's own update check is turned off with its own setting, because Flatpak does the updating. Report problems with this package on FlatPark's tracker, not to the PDFsam project.

Your Documents and Downloads folders are available, and results are saved next to the input files by default. The app has no network access, which every PDF tool works without; the news panel stays empty. A few optional capabilities are not granted by default; enable the ones you need with "flatpak override":

• Open and save PDFs anywhere in your home folder: flatpak override --user --filesystem=home org.pdfsam.basic
• Another folder only: flatpak override --user --filesystem=/absolute/path org.pdfsam.basic
• News and premium-tools panels: flatpak override --user --share=network org.pdfsam.basic
• Undo all of these: flatpak override --user --reset org.pdfsam.basic