pdfseparate(1) User Commands pdfseparate(1)
NAME
pdfseparate - Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor
SYNOPSIS
pdfseparate [options]
PDF-file PDF-page-patternDESCRIPTION
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) 15 September 2011 pdfseparate(1)
