#  `normalize`

Reformat page content streams
## Usage
> pdftl `<input>` `normalize` `[<spec>...]` `output` `<output>`

## Details
The `normalize` operation formats page
content streams for readability. This results in the content
stream appearing with one PDF content operator per line.

To see the effect of this operation in the PDF file (for
example, to examine a content stream in order to come up
with a regular expression to use in the `replace` operation)
you should pass the `uncompress` option to avoid compression
of the page content stream.

The `<spec>` specification defines the pages on which to
perform this operation. See the help topic [[`page_specs`]].
## Examples

> Normalize the content streams for pages 1-3, with uncompressed output
```
pdftl in.pdf normalize 1-3 output out.pdf uncompress
```


**Tags**: in_place

*Source: pdftl.operations.normalize*

*Read online: [https://pdftl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operations/normalize.html](https://pdftl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operations/normalize.html)*

*Type: Operation*