1. Install poppler-utils
2. To extract original embedded images:
$ pdfimages -j <file.pdf> <to_dir>
3. To extract text:
$ pdftotext -j <file.pdf>
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(1) Join the 2 separate PDFs into 1 file (e.g. joined.pdf) using tools such as pdfunite, pdfsam or pdfshuffler.
(2) Install pdfjam.
(Note: If you’re using Arch Linux, pdfjam is included in the texlive-bin package)
(3) Use the pdfnup tool from the pdfjam package to merge page 1 and page 2 of joined.pdf into a new pdf file consisting of only a single page, with page 1 stacked on top of page 2:
$ pdfnup joined.pdf --nup 1x2
Install QPDF, then:
$ qpdf --password=? --decrypt in.pdf out.pdf
This doesn’t crack or guess the password for you. You must already know the password. It merely helps you to create a copy of the PDF without password protection.