Section 1 · User commands

pdfseparate.1

Package: poppler-utils

pdfseparate

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EXAMPLE
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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 (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