pdfseparate

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 15 September 2011
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NAME

pdfseparate - Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor  

SYNOPSIS

pdfseparate [options] PDF-file PDF-page-pattern  

DESCRIPTION

pdfseparate extract single pages from a Portable Document Format (PDF).

pdfseparate reads the PDF file PDF-file, extracts one or more pages, and writes one PDF file for each page to PDF-page-pattern.

PDF-page-pattern should contain %d (or any variant respecting printf format), since %d is replaced by the page number.

The PDF-file should not be encrypted.
 

OPTIONS

-f number
Specifies the first page to extract. If -f is omitted, extraction starts with page 1.
-l number
Specifies the last page to extract. If -l is omitted, extraction ends with the last page.
-v
Print copyright and version information.
-h
Print usage information. (-help and --help are equivalent.)
 

EXAMPLE

pdfseparate sample.pdf sample-%d.pdf
extracts all pages from sample.pdf, if i.e. sample.pdf has 3 pages, it produces
sample-1.pdf, sample-2.pdf, sample-3.pdf
 

AUTHOR

The pdfseparate 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), pdffonts(1), pdfimages(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftocairo(1), pdftohtml(1), pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1) pdfsig(1), pdfunite(1)


 

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