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
- 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 -p 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
pdfunite(1),
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