.\" Copyright 2011 The Poppler Developers - http://poppler.freedesktop.org .TH pdfextract 1 "15 September 2011" .SH NAME pdfextract \- Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor .SH SYNOPSIS .B pdfextract [options] .I PDF-file PDF-page-pattern .SH DESCRIPTION .B pdfextract extract single pages from a Portable Document Format (PDF). .PP pdfextract reads the PDF file .IR PDF-file , extracts one or more pages, and writes one PDF file for each page to .IR PDF-page-pattern, PDF-page-pattern should contain .B %d .%d is replaced by the page number .TP The PDF-file should not be encrypted. .SH OPTIONS .TP .BI \-f " number" Specifies the first page to extract. If -f is omitted, extraction starts with page 1. .TP .BI \-l " number" Specifies the last page to extract. if -p is omitted, extraction ends with the last page. .TP .B \-v Print copyright and version information. .TP .B \-h Print usage information. .RB ( \-help and .B \-\-help are equivalent.) .SH EXAMPLE pdfextract sample.pdf sample-%d.pdf .TP extracts all pages from sample.pdf, if i.e. sample.pdf has 3 pages, it produces .TP sample-1.pdf, sample-2.pdf, sample-3.pdf .SH AUTHOR The pdfextract software and documentation are copyright 2011 The Poppler Developers - http://poppler.freedesktop.org .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR pdfmerge (1),