pdfseparate1

Usage

Overview

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.)

Examples

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