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

       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)