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split a multi-page PDF into separate files

Terminal - split a multi-page PDF into separate files
pdftk in.pdf burst
2010-02-10 13:31:36
User: rodolfoap
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split a multi-page PDF into separate files

Simple alternative to the previous submitted one

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gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFirstPage=2 -dLastPage=2 -sOutputFile=page2.pdf multipageinputfile.pdf
2010-02-10 08:48:48
User: drewbenn
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split a multi-page PDF into separate files

Have to do this once per output file, because if device is 'pdfwrite', even if 'gs' sees '%d' in the OutputFile it still only creates one single output file. Embed it into a simple shell script if you want to split a document out into one file for every page.

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Better question: do you kn ow of a method to a split a single .pdf page in half, vertically, in the center? I ask because I have a lot of .pdfs that are scans of books given to me by professors, and splitting each page and making it a new one would make those pages Kindle-readable.

Comment by unixmonkey8238 4 weeks ago

Unixmonkey,

I don't know of a one-liner that would do that, but I'm sure that short bash or perl script using imagemagick could make that happen.

Comment by bartonski 4 weeks ago

imagemagick would do it based on pixels. so to keep the text as text. you would need to burst using stapler or pdftk then convert to svg using inkscape, use inkscape's svg cropping functions; convert back to pdf using inkscape then stapler or pdftk them back together.

If I had an example I could experiment...

Comment by infinull 3 weeks and 6 days ago

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