1pdfseparate(1)              General Commands Manual             pdfseparate(1)
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NAME

6       pdfseparate - Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor
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SYNOPSIS

9       pdfseparate [options] PDF-file PDF-page-pattern
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DESCRIPTION

12       pdfseparate extract single pages from a Portable Document Format (PDF).
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14       pdfseparate  reads  the  PDF file PDF-file, extracts one or more pages,
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16       pattern should contain %d.  %d is replaced by the page number.
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18       The PDF-file should not be encrypted.
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OPTIONS

21       -f number
22              Specifies  the  first page to extract. If -f is omitted, extrac‐
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25       -l number
26              Specifies the last page to extract. If -l is omitted, extraction
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29       -v     Print copyright and version information.
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31       -h     Print usage information.  (-help and --help are equivalent.)
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EXAMPLE

34       pdfseparate sample.pdf sample-%d.pdf
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36       extracts  all pages from sample.pdf, if i.e. sample.pdf has 3 pages, it
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39       sample-1.pdf, sample-2.pdf, sample-3.pdf
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AUTHOR

42       The pdfseparate software  and  documentation  are  copyright  1996-2004
43       Glyph  &  Cog,  LLC  and  copyright  2005-2011 The Poppler Developers -
44       http://poppler.freedesktop.org
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SEE ALSO

47       pdfunite(1),
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51                               15 September 2011                pdfseparate(1)