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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 re‐
       placed 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 copy‐
       right 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)