Man1 - pdfseparate.1

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 ::

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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