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.
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)
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