Extracting pages from a pdf file using linux command line

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Pdftk is a tool which we can use to split or extract pages from a pdf document. To install pdfktk on debian based systems : $ sudo apt-get install pdftk.

examples:
1. Let us say we have a pdf file,temp.pdf, with 100 pages in it. We want to extranct the pages 20 to 30 and create a new pdf . We can do it using pdftk

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$ pdftk temp.pdf cat 20-30 output new.pdf 

2. We can pick specific pages instead of a range by just passing the page numbers. To create a new pdf by extracting pages 21,25, and 28 we can use.

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$ pdftk temp.pdf cat 21 25 28 output new.pdf