[olug] Extracting single pdf pages from a 1,600 page pdf

Eric Pierce eric_olug at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 16 14:01:19 UTC 2004


Beautiful.  That's perfect!

Thanks Matt & Briwn!

Eric

--- Matt Payne <matt.payne at gmail.com> wrote:
> The PDF toolkit (http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/) that Brian W talked
> about a few days ago seems to work for your sample file.  (I only spot
> checked page3).
> 
> The files from bursting your five page sample are at
> http://mattpayne.org/ep/ (for a few days).
> 
> The pdftk package compiled just fine for me.   
> 
> Many thanks to Brian! -Matt
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:15:11 -0700 (PDT), Eric Pierce
> <eric_olug at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I thought I had it with this:
> > convert pages1to5.pdf picom_%03d.pdf
> > 
> > But it doesn't preserve the text in the pdf.  Go figure... it's an
> ImageMajick
> > command.
> > 
> > Eric
> > 
> > 
> > --- Eric Pierce <eric_olug at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > I'm trying to turn a single 1,600 page pdf document into 1,600 pdf files
> of
> > > each page from the initial document.
> > >
> > > I figure a sleek bash (sed/awk) script could be written to pull this off,
> but
> > > I'm not sure where the page breaks are occuring.  Anyone have any
> experience
> > > in
> > > with this?
> > >
> > > Here's a sample (5 pgs) of the pdf I'm trying to work with.
> > > http://epierce.freeshell.org/misc/pages1to5.pdf
> > >
> > > I'll be googling in the meantime.
> > > Eric Pierce
> > >
> > >
> > >
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