Free or inexpensive PDF combiner

[RBShooter]

I can't find my old version of Acrobat (9?) to load on to this now box I'm using, and I believe the new acrobat is now subscription-based.

Is there a free or cheap app that I can use to combine several PDFs in to one file? Looks like there's some "free" online apps but I'm not wanting to upload my docs in to someone else's cloud somewhere.

TUIA of an viable solutions.

[Big Chudungus]

I can't find my old version of Acrobat (9?) to load on to this now box I'm using, and I believe the new acrobat is now subscription-based.

Is there a free or cheap app that I can use to combine several PDFs in to one file? Looks like there's some "free" online apps but I'm not wanting to upload my docs in to someone else's cloud somewhere.

TUIA of an viable solutions.

haven't tried "combine" but a CalGunner turned me onto "PDFescape" and its legit free to use and works great. off-line Desktop has "free trial"

Yeah, what about PDFs make it seemingly impossible to do for free??? Shouldn't this be part of Open Office etc?

IIRC Open Office required some Add On that I couldn't make work and required all sorts of cryptic Open Source skillz and massive "try this to fix it" gibberish.

https://www.pdfescape.com/

[gwanghoops]

PDFcomplete corporate edition $20 -- does the basics

[abinsinia]

pdftk

[Robotron2k84]

https://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=1709260

[crufflers]

I know you do not want someone else's cloud, but at least this is ADOBE right?

https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/merge-pdf.html

Other free PDF tools I use are NAPS (not another PDF scanner) and doPDF. I still use adobe 5.x and 9.x sometimes... IIRC, 5.x you could install a million times with the same serial.

[hermosabeach]

I picked up a cheap copy of expert pdf on eBay.

[middleofnowhere]

I use Bluebeam at work, I’m not sure of the cost, but it’s a great program.

[SCSnyder]

Print out the documents then scan them back in as a single PDF.

[67Cuda]

I have Paperport. I think the company is gone, but if you can find a cheap unused copy, it works for stacking and unstacking.

[crufflers]

I have Paperport. I think the company is gone, but if you can find a cheap unused copy, it works for stacking and unstacking.

NAPS does that as well... whatever individual PDF you have in the work area view can be selected and saved as multipage PDF. I used to use Paperport when I had one of those scanners (Visioneer).

[MyOdessa]

Best all around free PDF manipulator PDFSam