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I love this site so much. I've been spending the last few weeks downloading public-domain scores and carefully curating them onto my tablet (awesome tools for PDF reading, if not much else). I've been learning command-line pdf tools so that I can curate/annotate music cores in interesting ways, or append ToC's, or create research versions from multiple editions of the same piece.

My current project (literally this minute) is reducing thousands of pages of Scarlatti into the curated subset that's Vladimir Horowitz' repertoire. As soon as I finish, I'll listen to his album again, with all the scores in one place :)



Can you recommend any command-line pdf tools? As a student I have to look at lots of pdfs and the gui tools for manipulation are very lacking.


I used pdftk for this project,

https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/pdftk-java/pdftk.1.en.h...

I only used the subcommands "cat" (extract & concatenate PDF pages) and "update_info" (to edit ToC metadata).


That sounds like a significant and helpful addition to those scores. Have you tried contacting the Library to see if they could host the changes so they are available for others?

Alternatively maybe even github depending on the legality




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