Sometimes it is required to extract some pages from a PDF file and save them as another PDF document.
In Linux we can easily split PDF documents by pages using the command line utility called pdftk
.
From this article you will learn how to extract individual pages or a range of pages from a PDF file and save them as another PDF document.
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First of all it is required to install the pdftk
utility:
$ sudo apt-get install pdftk
Split PDF File
Extract the 5th page from the ORIG_FILE.pdf
and save it to the NEW_FILE.pdf
:
$ pdftk ORIG_FILE.pdf cat 5 output NEW_FILE.pdf
Extract several individual pages:
$ pdftk ORIG_FILE.pdf cat 1 4 6 output NEW_FILE.pdf
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Extract a range of pages:
$ pdftk ORIG_FILE.pdf cat 1-5 output NEW_FILE.pdf
Extract the combination of individual pages and a range of pages:
$ pdftk ORIG_FILE.pdf cat 1 5 7 10-12 output NEW_FILE.pdf
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