How can you pick pages from a PDF file?
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pick-pages 1,2-69,70-73,100 example.pdf > put_to_new_file.pdf
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Léo Léopold Hertz 준영
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At least it would have to be: pick-pages original.pdf 1,2-69,70-73,100 target.pdf – Thomas Geritzma Sep 15 '09 at 19:31
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This has been covered before. More than once. – dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Sep 15 '09 at 19:33
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dmckee: Please, add links to the location where this has been discussed before. – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Sep 15 '09 at 19:35
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2In addition to questions like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/730613/pdf-document-manipulation and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/416851/how-can-i-extract-a-page-from-a-pdf-file *I* gave *you* this information here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/757689/how-can-i-compile-first-2-pages-of-24-pages-in-a-latex-document/757768#757768 . – dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Sep 15 '09 at 19:43
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Hmm. Interesting. The worst answer being the accepted one. – Rook Sep 15 '09 at 20:06
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My best suggestion would be to try something with PDF toolkit - with Split and Merge, and a simple .bat file construction, something like that shouldn't be much hard.
Thomas Geritzma
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ghostscript, somethign like
gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFirstPage=3 -dLastPage=3 -sOutputFile=fileout.pdf filein.pdf
Martin Beckett
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This is how I've done it with regular expressions. I counted the number of matches for the following regular expressions:
/Type\s*/Page[^s]
Case insensitive, by the way.
David Andres
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Probably this is not a popular method, but this is one way. You can use pdflatex. For example, you can write a tex like:
\documentclass{book}\usepackage{pdfpages}\begin{document}
\includepdf[pages={1,2-10,11}]{pdf.pdf}\end{document}
You can write a small script to automize this.
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The best way is pdftk. The problem is installing pdftk from MacPorts requires to install a free JavaVM, which bugs me a bit. – user172818 Sep 15 '09 at 19:38
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As part of my CAM::PDF Perl library on CPAN, I bundle a command-line utility deletepdfpage.pl that does the inverse of what you are asking for, with almost the exact same syntax:
deletepdfpage.pl original.pdf 74-99,101- target.pdf
Chris Dolan
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