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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17       PDF-page-pattern should contain %d (or any  variant  respecting  printf
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20       The PDF-file should not be encrypted.
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OPTIONS

23       -f number
24              Specifies  the  first page to extract. If -f is omitted, extrac‐
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27       -l number
28              Specifies the last page to extract. If -l is omitted, extraction
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31       -v     Print copyright and version information.
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33       -h     Print usage information.  (-help and --help are equivalent.)
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EXAMPLE

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

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

49       pdfdetach(1),  pdffonts(1),  pdfimages(1),  pdfinfo(1),  pdftocairo(1),
50       pdftohtml(1),  pdftoppm(1),  pdftops(1),  pdftotext(1) pdfsig(1), pdfu‐
51       nite(1)
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55                               15 September 2011                pdfseparate(1)
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