Remove only 1st page from a LOT of pdf files

You can do this with a free program called pdftk, available here.

You can use the following commands to take every PDF in the current directory and copy them to the ‘trimmed’ directory with the first page removed:

mkdir trimmed
for i in *pdf ; do pdftk "$i" cat 2-end output "trimmed/$i" ; done

This looks like a job for PdfToolKit. This a command line utility to manipulate pdfs

First, install PDFToolkil, either from the Software Centre or using the command line:

sudo apt-get install pdftk

Now the command to remove the first page from a normal (non-protected pdf) would be:

pdftk original.pdf cat 2-end output outputname.pdf

If the pdf is protected you will need to give the passwords to pdftk.

To convert a large number of pdf's you will need to write a small script that takes care of running pdftk for each one.