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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