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pdfseparate(1) General Commands Manual pdfseparate(1)

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.

OPTIONS

Specifies the first page to extract. If -f is omitted, extraction starts with page 1.
Specifies the last page to extract. If -l is omitted, extraction ends with the last page.
Print copyright and version information.
Print usage information. (-help and --help are equivalent.)

EXAMPLE

pdfseparate sample.pdf sample-%d.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)

15 September 2011