Split PDF document from command line in Linux?
Problem
I would like to extract page ranges from a PDF document into a new PDF document using the command line in Linux. Note that: PDFtk - The PDF Toolkit fails for me with: From here: You (should) know that Pdftk is nothing more than a very old version of iText (a Java-PDF library) compiled with GCJ and extended with some command line functionality. The keywords in the above statement are "VERY OLD". Multivalent also fails: Turns out, this is a bit of a tricky software: even if it's on SourceForge, and says here that Practical Thought generously provides these tools for free use on the command line However, here it says: The browser is open source. The document tools are a free bonus and not open source. Which finally clarifies the comment from conversion - Gluing (Imposition) PDF documents - Stack Overflow: All releases of Multivalent linked from the official sourceforge site are missing the tools package. (edit: there seems to be an old Multivalent version with the tools included, see the…
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I find pdfseparate very convenient to split ranges into individual pages. You can extract all pages into files named , , like this, And you can extract pages 1 - 5 of by using the first-page and last-page flags, , If you want to recombine them into page ranges, for example pages 1-3 in one document and pages 4-5 in another, you can use the companion program, pdfunite, as follows: I believe theese tools are part of poppler and may already be installed on your system.
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