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. |
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−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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