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pdfseparate(1)							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 (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, extrac‐
	      tion 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), pdfu‐
       nite(1)

			       15 September 2011		pdfseparate(1)

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