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.  %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, extrac‐
              tion 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
       pdfunite(1),



                               15 September 2011                pdfseparate(1)