PDF Split and Merge

PDFsam Basic
PDFsam Basic
	PDFsam Basic 3.3.2 with merge PDF module opened
Developer	Andrea Vacondio
Release	June 29, 2008
Stable release	6.0.6 / 2 October 2026; 23 days ago
Written in	Java, JavaFX
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	Java
Type	PDF utility
License	AGPLv3 for v3, GPLv2 for previous versions 2.x
Website	pdfsam.org
Repository	github.com/torakiki/pdfsam

PDFsam Basic or PDF Split and Merge is a free and open-source cross-platform desktop application to split, merge, extract pages, rotate and mix PDF documents. PDFsam uses a freemium model and encourages buying the full version with popups.

Distribution system

PDFsam Basic is a desktop application freely accessible both as source and compiled code. It is available as a MSI package for 32-bit and 64-bit MS Windows, .dmg for macOS, .deb package for Debian based Linux distributions, and ZIP bundle for power users' convenience.

Functionalities

Merge PDF files selecting entire documents or subsections of them. It provides a number of settings to let the user decide what to do in case the original PDF files contain Acro Forms (Acrobat forms) or an outline (bookmarks) and it can generate a table of contents, normalize pages size and page margins and add blank pages.
Split PDF files in a number of ways:
- After every page, even pages or odd pages
- After a given set of page numbers
- Every n pages
- By bookmark level
- By size, where the generated files will roughly have the specified size
Rotate PDF files where multiple files can be rotated, either every page or a selected set of pages (i.e. Mb).
Extract pages from multiple PDF files
Mix PDF files where a number of PDF files are merged, taking pages alternately from them
Save and restore of the workspace

Architecture

PDFsam Basic is written in Java and JavaFX. PDFsam Basic relies on Sejda SDK, an open source and task oriented Java library to edit PDF files and SAMBox, a PDFBox fork.

References

↑ "Release 6.0.6". 2 October 2026. Retrieved 2 October 2026.
↑ Wolski, David. "Toolbox: PDF-Werkstatt mit PDFsam". c't Magazin (in German). Archived from the original on 2021-10-22. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
↑ "Split or Merge PDFs with PDFsam Basic, an open source program for Windows, Linux and macOS". gHacks Technology News. 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2026-09-18.

External links

Official website
pdfsam on GitHub

[wikidata-d52ba631e193510e91d2fe8b9fec1bf6bdc4abfd-v20-1] "Release 6.0.6". 2 October 2026. Retrieved 2 October 2026.

[2] Wolski, David. "Toolbox: PDF-Werkstatt mit PDFsam". c't Magazin (in German). Archived from the original on 2021-10-22. Retrieved 2026-09-18.

[3] "Split or Merge PDFs with PDFsam Basic, an open source program for Windows, Linux and macOS". gHacks Technology News. 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2026-09-18.