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 pdfseparate(1)                                               pdfseparate(1)
                              15 September 2011



 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 (or any variant respecting printf
      format), since %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

 produces
      extracts all pages from sample.pdf, if i.e. sample.pdf has 3 pages, it

      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)






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