Slice and Dice PDF

March 24th, 2009 by Janos Gyerik in

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Using poppler-tools and psutils, you can extract a range of pages from a larger PDF file. For example, if you want to extract pages 11–14 of the PDF file afile.pdf, you could use the following command:

$ pdftops afile.pdf - | psselect -p11-14 | ps2pdf - file-p11-14.pdf

The pdftops command converts the PDF file to PostScript; the psselect command selects the relevant pages from the PostScript, and the ps2pdf command converts the selected PostScript into a new PDF file.

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Anonymous's picture

looking for similar

On April 2nd, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) says:

This and comments give me things to investigate tomorrow, but I have been looking for something that simply combines pdfs or images into one pdf.

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Whitening System

On March 28th, 2009 Whitening System (not verified) says:

Poppler-tools and psutils if actually can command over the PDF file then great…!

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Seriously I agree using

On March 27th, 2009 Dentist Melbourne (not verified) says:

Seriously I agree using poppler-tools and psutils, you can extract a range of pages from a larger PDF file.

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On March 27th, 2009 bmx bikes (not verified) says:

I found this option really of good use and great significance

Tig's picture

pdftk is better

On March 24th, 2009 Tig (not verified) says:

I like to use pdftk for such things. The above line translates to:

"pdftk A=afile.pdf cat A11-14 output file-p11-14.pdf"

No converting to and from postscript.

Stavros Christoforou's picture

There is another option

On March 24th, 2009 Stavros Christoforou (not verified) says:

You could use pdftk, which does everything without the need for conversion to/from ps.

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