How to extract all pages of one big pdf file?

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I need a tip how to extract all pages from big pdf file in command line. Someone can help me?

Thanks

What do you mean by "extract all pages"? Do you mean to extract each page of the PDF into its own PDF file, or into some other file format?

Ielton · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-27 21:22:42Z

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If you wanna extract all pages from a pdf file, You need pdftk:

Do you use a debian's like distro? Do:

$ sudo apt-get install pdftk

Once installed, do:

$ pdftk file.pdf burst

**Another tip, create a new directory before split your pdf file to take your files organized

edited Dec 27 '11 at 21:22

answered Dec 27 '11 at 21:08

Ielton
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This is, thanks! – RogerioO Dec 27 '11 at 21:14

Antonio Bardazzi · Answer 2 · 2011-12-27 21:16:40Z

To manage PDF you can use PDF Toolkit. On Debian based distribution you can install with:

apt-get install pdftk

Is written in Java and require gcj.

You can create a new file for every page with:

pdftk BIG-FILE.pdf burst

You can also use the pdftk cat command to split some pages: please read the manual.

If you want to convert PDF files you can pick an utility from the bunch of poppler-utils.

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