pdfseparate(1) General Commands Manual pdfseparate(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

pdfseparate - Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**pdfseparate** \[options] *PDF-file PDF-page-pattern*

# [DESCRIPTION](#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.](#The)

# [OPTIONS](#OPTIONS)

[**-f number**](#f)

Specifies the first page to extract. If -f is omitted, extraction starts with page 1.

[**-l number**](#l)

Specifies the last page to extract. If -l is omitted, extraction ends with the last page.

[**-v**](#v)

Print copyright and version information.

[**-h**](#h)

Print usage information. (**-help** and **--help** are equivalent.)

# [EXAMPLE](#EXAMPLE)

pdfseparate sample.pdf sample-%d.pdf

[extracts all pages from sample.pdf, if i.e. sample.pdf has 3 pages, it produces](#extracts)

[sample-1.pdf, sample-2.pdf, sample-3.pdf](#sample-1.pdf,)

# [AUTHOR](#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](#SEE_ALSO)

[**pdfdetach**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdfdetach.1), [**pdffonts**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdffonts.1), [**pdfimages**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdfimages.1), [**pdfinfo**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdfinfo.1), [**pdftocairo**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdftocairo.1), [**pdftohtml**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdftohtml.1), [**pdftoppm**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdftoppm.1), [**pdftops**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdftops.1), [**pdftotext**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdftotext.1) [**pdfsig**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdfsig.1), [**pdfunite**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdfunite.1)

15 September 2011

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Document: pdfseparate(1) from poppler 26.08.0-r1 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler.git