pdfseparate - Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor
pdfseparate [options] PDF-file PDF-page-pattern
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.
- -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.)
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
The pdfseparate software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph &
Cog, LLC and copyright 2005-2011 The Poppler Developers -
http://poppler.freedesktop.org
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