Here is a good post on how to combine different PDF documents in to one and splitting one into many. sudo apt-get install pdftk cd ~ / pdf-directory pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf cat output newfile.pdf pdftk * .pdf cat output newfile.pdf pdftk newfile.pdf burst More details at : http://maketecheasier.com/combine-multiple-pdf-files-with-pdftk/2010/02/22