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)