pdfseparate - Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor
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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.
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
Name
pdfseparate - Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor
Options
-fnumber
Specifies the first page to extract. If -f is omitted, extraction starts with page 1.
-lnumber
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.)
See Also
pdfdetach(1), pdffonts(1), pdfimages(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftocairo(1), pdftohtml(1), pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1) pdfsig(1), pdfunite(1) 15 September 2011 pdfseparate(1)
Synopsis
pdfseparate [options] PDF-filePDF-page-pattern
