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, 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
       pdfunite(1),



                                        15 September 2011                          pdfseparate(1)