PDF Page Extractor Command Line

PDF Page Extractor Command Line is used to extract pages of PDF from one or more PDF files. This is a command line based tool that is powerful and easy to use.

In some situations that you just need some pages of a PDF file and you need to extract and save them to a new PDF. PDF Page Extractor Command Line can do this for you. You can use this program in Windows, Mac OS and even Linux because this program has three versions for these kinds of operating systems. The usages and functions are the same in the three operating systems.

This article will present the usage of PDF Page Extractor Command Line in Mac OS X. You will know the usages of the Windows and Linux version programs after learning the usage of Mac OS version program.

Download the package of PDF Page Extractor Command Line for Mac OS, and it is DMG disk image file. You can mount or unpack the image to your Mac OS system, and you will find the executable file in the sub directory bin in the package. You can open a terminal in your Mac OS and run the program.

If you want to extract, for example, pages from 4 to 9 and from 15 to the last of PDF file in.pdf and save these pages to PDF file out.pdf, you can use the following commands.

pdftoolbox in.pdf -merge 4-9 15-end -outfile out.pdf

In the command line, arguments "4-9 15-end" following option -merge tells the program to extract pages of number 4 to 9 and number 15 to the last of the input file in.pdf. Option -outfile specifies the name out.pdf to save the extracted PDF pages.

Besides extracting useful pages from PDF file, PDF Page Extractor Command Line can also merge multiple PDF files to one single PDF, or encrypt existing PDF files with PDF passwords. You can learn more function options by running the program without any arguments or options, showing the brief manual of the program. There are many practical examples in sub directory test in the package of the program, and you can learn the usage of each option from those examples.

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