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,
          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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