---
name: "pdfunite"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "poppler"
version: "26.10.0-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://carta.tech/man/pdfunite"
---

# pdfunite(1)

Portable Document Format (PDF) page merger

## NAME

pdfunite - Portable Document Format (PDF) page merger

## SYNOPSIS

**pdfunite** \[options\] *PDF-sourcefile1..PDF-sourcefilen PDF-destfile*

## DESCRIPTION

**pdfunite** merges several PDF (Portable Document Format) files in order of their occurrence on command line to one PDF result file.

- Neither of the PDF-sourcefile1 to PDF-sourcefilen should be encrypted.

  ## OPTIONS

- **-v**

  Print copyright and version information.

- **-h**

  Print usage information. (**-help** and **--help** are equivalent.)

## EXAMPLE

pdfunite sample1.pdf sample2.pdf sample.pdf

- merges all pages from sample1.pdf and sample2.pdf (in that order) and creates sample.pdf

  ## AUTHOR

The pdfunite software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC and copyright 2005-2011 The Poppler Developers - http://poppler.freedesktop.org

## SEE ALSO

[**pdfdetach**(1)](/man/pdfdetach/1.md), [**pdffonts**(1)](/man/pdffonts/1.md), [**pdfimages**(1)](/man/pdfimages/1.md), [**pdfinfo**(1)](/man/pdfinfo/1.md), [**pdftocairo**(1)](/man/pdftocairo/1.md), [**pdftohtml**(1)](/man/pdftohtml/1.md), [**pdftoppm**(1)](/man/pdftoppm/1.md), [**pdftops**(1)](/man/pdftops/1.md), [**pdftotext**(1)](/man/pdftotext/1.md) [**pdfseparate**(1)](/man/pdfseparate/1.md), [**pdfsig**(1)](/man/pdfsig/1.md)