PHP - How to combine / merge multiple pdf's

Question

I have some pdf documents on a linux server that I want to combine together to form one document using PHP 5?

Does anyone know if this can be done?

Thanks

Answer 1

use GS

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=finished.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf

taken from: http://mylinuxnotes.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/howto-join-pdf-files/ documentation: https://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/8229-putting-together-pdf-files

pdftk - Why NOT?

pdftk uses too many dependencies (and java!!! :O). For this task you can avoid this by using gs.

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pdftk better :D merges faster. i have 600pdf and pdtfk took ~11sec, while gs 6min maybe there is some gs options, but pdftk simpler (bow)

Answer 2

You can invoke the command-line utility pdfjoin from the PDFJam bundle.