| .\" Copyright 2011 The Poppler Developers - http://poppler.freedesktop.org |
| .TH pdfseparate 1 "15 September 2011" |
| .SH NAME |
| pdfseparate \- Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B pdfseparate |
| [options] |
| .I PDF-file PDF-page-pattern |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B pdfseparate |
| extract single pages from a Portable Document Format (PDF). |
| .PP |
| pdfseparate reads the PDF file |
| .IR PDF-file , |
| extracts one or more pages, and writes one PDF file for each page to |
| .IR PDF-page-pattern. |
| .PP |
| PDF-page-pattern should contain |
| .BR %d |
| (or any variant respecting printf format), since %d is replaced by the page number. |
| .TP |
| The PDF-file should not be encrypted. |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| .TP |
| .BI \-f " number" |
| Specifies the first page to extract. If \-f is omitted, extraction starts with page 1. |
| .TP |
| .BI \-l " number" |
| Specifies the last page to extract. If \-l is omitted, extraction ends with the last page. |
| .TP |
| .B \-v |
| Print copyright and version information. |
| .TP |
| .B \-h |
| Print usage information. |
| .RB ( \-help |
| and |
| .B \-\-help |
| are equivalent.) |
| .SH EXAMPLE |
| pdfseparate sample.pdf sample-%d.pdf |
| .TP |
| extracts all pages from sample.pdf, if i.e. sample.pdf has 3 pages, it produces |
| .TP |
| sample-1.pdf, sample-2.pdf, sample-3.pdf |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| The pdfseparate software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph |
| & Cog, LLC and copyright 2005-2011 The Poppler Developers - http://poppler.freedesktop.org |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .BR pdfdetach (1), |
| .BR pdffonts (1), |
| .BR pdfimages (1), |
| .BR pdfinfo (1), |
| .BR pdftocairo (1), |
| .BR pdftohtml (1), |
| .BR pdftoppm (1), |
| .BR pdftops (1), |
| .BR pdftotext (1) |
| .BR pdfsig (1), |
| .BR pdfunite (1) |
