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pdftk is a useful multi-platform tool for the job (pdftk homepage).

pdftk full-pdf.pdf cat 12-15 output outfile_p12-15.pdf

you pass the filename of the main pdf, then you tell it to only include certain pages (12-15 in this example) and output it to a new file.

very Simple, use default PDF reader :

print as file. that is it!

then

Page range - Nautilus script

Overview

I created a slightly more advanced script based on the tutorial @ThiagoPonte linked to. Its key features are

• that it's GUI based,


• compatible with spaces in file names,


• and based on three different backends that are capable of preserving all attributes of the original file

Screenshot

Code

#!/bin/bash

#

# TITLE:        PDFextract

#

# AUTHOR:       (c) 2013-2015 Glutanimate (https://github.com/Glutanimate)

#

# VERSION:      0.2

#

# LICENSE:      GNU GPL v3 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)

# 

# OVERVIEW:     PDFextract is a simple PDF extraction script based on Ghostscript/qpdf/cpdf.

#               It provides a simple way to extract a page range from a PDF document and is meant

#               to be used as a file manager script/addon (e.g. Nautilus script).

#

# FEATURES:     - simple GUI based on YAD, an advanced Zenity fork.

#               - preserves _all_ attributes of your original PDF file and does not compress 

#                 embedded images further than they are.      

#               - can choose from three different backends: ghostscript, qpdf, cpdf

#

# DEPENDENCIES: ghostscript/qpdf/cpdf poppler-utils yad libnotify-bin

#                         

#               You need to install at least one of the three backends supported by this script.

#

#               - ghostscript, qpdf, poppler-utils, and libnotify-bin are available via 

#                 the standard Ubuntu repositories

#               - cpdf is a commercial CLI PDF toolkit that is free for personal use.

#                 It can be downloaded here: https://github.com/coherentgraphics/cpdf-binaries

#               - yad can be installed from the webupd8 PPA with the following command:

#                 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager && apt-get update && apt-get install yad

#

# NOTES:        Here is a quick comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of each backend:

#

#                               speed     metadata preservation     content preservation        license

#               ghostscript:     --               ++                         ++               open-source

#               cpdf:             -               ++                         ++               proprietary

#               qpdf:            ++                +                         ++               open-source

#

#               Results might vary depending on the document and the version of the tool in question.

#

# INSTALLATION: https://askubuntu.com/a/236415

#

# This script was inspired by Kurt Pfeifle's PDF extraction script 

# (http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tech-tip-extract-pages-pdf)

#

# Originally posted on askubuntu

# (https://askubuntu.com/a/282453)



# Variables



DOCUMENT="$1"

BACKENDSELECTION="^qpdf!ghostscript!cpdf"



# Functions



check_input(){

  if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then

    notify "Error: No input file selected."

    exit 1

  elif [[ ! "$(file -ib "$1")" == *application/pdf* ]]; then

    notify "Error: Not a valid PDF file."

    exit 1

  fi

}



check_deps () {

  for i in "$@"; do

    type "$i" > /dev/null 2>&1 

    if [[ "$?" != "0" ]]; then

      MissingDeps+="$i"

    fi

  done

}



ghostscriptextract(){

  gs -dFirstPage="$STARTPAGE "-dLastPage="$STOPPAGE" -sOutputFile="$OUTFILE" -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dPDFSETTING=/default -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompressFonts=true -c 

  ".setpdfwrite << /EncodeColorImages true /DownsampleMonoImages false /SubsetFonts true /ASCII85EncodePages false /DefaultRenderingIntent /Default /ColorConversionStrategy 

  /LeaveColorUnchanged /MonoImageDownsampleThreshold 1.5 /ColorACSImageDict << /VSamples [ 1 1 1 1 ] /HSamples [ 1 1 1 1 ] /QFactor 0.4 /Blend 1 >> /GrayACSImageDict 

  << /VSamples [ 1 1 1 1 ] /HSamples [ 1 1 1 1 ] /QFactor 0.4 /Blend 1 >> /PreserveOverprintSettings false /MonoImageResolution 300 /MonoImageFilter /FlateEncode 

  /GrayImageResolution 300 /LockDistillerParams false /EncodeGrayImages true /MaxSubsetPCT 100 /GrayImageDict << /VSamples [ 1 1 1 1 ] /HSamples [ 1 1 1 1 ] /QFactor 

  0.4 /Blend 1 >> /ColorImageFilter /FlateEncode /EmbedAllFonts true /UCRandBGInfo /Remove /AutoRotatePages /PageByPage /ColorImageResolution 300 /ColorImageDict << 

  /VSamples [ 1 1 1 1 ] /HSamples [ 1 1 1 1 ] /QFactor 0.4 /Blend 1 >> /CompatibilityLevel 1.7 /EncodeMonoImages true /GrayImageDownsampleThreshold 1.5 

  /AutoFilterGrayImages false /GrayImageFilter /FlateEncode /DownsampleGrayImages false /AutoFilterColorImages false /DownsampleColorImages false /CompressPages true 

  /ColorImageDownsampleThreshold 1.5 /PreserveHalftoneInfo false >> setdistillerparams" -f "$DOCUMENT"

}



cpdfextract(){

  cpdf "$DOCUMENT" "$STARTPAGE-$STOPPAGE" -o "$OUTFILE"

}



qpdfextract(){

  qpdf --linearize "$DOCUMENT" --pages "$DOCUMENT" "$STARTPAGE-$STOPPAGE" -- "$OUTFILE"

  echo "$OUTFILE"

  return 0 # even benign qpdf warnings produce error codes, so we suppress them

}



notify(){

  echo "$1"

  notify-send -i application-pdf "PDFextract" "$1"

}



dialog_warning(){

  echo "$1"

  yad --center --image dialog-warning 

  --title "PDFExtract Warning" 

  --text "$1" 

  --button="Try again:0" 

  --button="Exit:1"



  [[ "$?" != "0" ]] && exit 0

}



dialog_settings(){

  PAGECOUNT=$(pdfinfo "$DOCUMENT" | grep Pages | sed 's/[^0-9]*//') #determine page count



  SETTINGS=($(

      yad --form --width 300 --center 

          --window-icon application-pdf --image application-pdf 

          --separator=" " --title="PDFextract"

          --text "Please choose the page range and backend"

          --field="Start:NUM" 1[!1..$PAGECOUNT[!1]] --field="End:NUM" $PAGECOUNT[!1..$PAGECOUNT[!1]] 

          --field="Backend":CB "$BACKENDSELECTION" 

          --button="gtk-ok:0" --button="gtk-cancel:1"

      ))



  SETTINGSRET="$?"



  [[ "$SETTINGSRET" != "0" ]] && exit 1



  STARTPAGE=$(printf %.0f ${SETTINGS[0]}) #round numbers and store array in variables

  STOPPAGE=$(printf %.0f ${SETTINGS[1]})

  BACKEND="${SETTINGS[2]}"

  EXTRACTOR="${BACKEND}extract"



  check_deps "$BACKEND"



  if [[ -n "$MissingDeps" ]]; then

    dialog_warning "Error, missing dependency: $MissingDeps"

    unset MissingDeps

    dialog_settings

    return

  fi



  if [[ "$STARTPAGE" -gt "$STOPPAGE" ]]; then 

    dialog_warning "<b>   Start page higher than stop page.   </b>"

    dialog_settings

    return

  fi



  OUTFILE="${DOCUMENT%.pdf} (p${STARTPAGE}-p${STOPPAGE}).pdf"

}



extract_pages(){

  $EXTRACTOR

  EXTRACTORRET="$?"

  if [[ "$EXTRACTORRET" = "0" ]]; then

    notify "Pages $STARTPAGE to $STOPPAGE succesfully extracted."

  else

    notify "There has been an error. Please check the CLI output."

  fi

}





# Main



check_input "$1"

dialog_settings

extract_pages

Installation

Please follow the generic installation instructions for Nautilus scripts. Make sure to read the script header carefully as it will help to clarify the installation and usage of the script.

Partial pages - PDF Shuffler

Overview

PDF-Shuffler is a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. It is a frontend for python-pyPdf.

Installation

sudo apt-get install pdfshuffler

Usage

PDF-Shuffler can crop and delete single PDF pages. You can use it to extract a page range from a document or even partial pages using the cropping function:

Page elements - Inkscape

Overview

Inkscape is a very powerful open-source vector graphics editor. It supports a wide range of different formats, including PDF files. You can use it to extract, modify and save page elements from a PDF file.

Installation

sudo apt-get install inkscape

Usage

1.) Open the PDF file of your choice with Inkscape. An import dialog will appear. Choose the page you want to extract elements from. Leave the other settings as they are:

2.) In Inkscape click and drag to select the element(s) you want to extract:

3.) Invert the selection with ! and delete the selected object with DELETE:

4.) Crop the document to the remaining objects by accessing the Document Properties dialog with CTRL+SHIFT+D and selecting "fit document to image":

5.) Save the document as a PDF file from the File --> Save as dialog:

6.) If there are bitmap/raster images in your cropped document you can set their DPI in the dialog that appears next:

7.) If you followed all steps you will have produced a true PDF file that only consists of the objects of your choice:

QPDF is great. Use it this way to extract pages 1-10 from input.pdf and save it as output.pdf.

qpdf --pages input.pdf 1-10 -- input.pdf output.pdf

Please note that input.pdf is written twice.

You can install it by invoking:

apt-get install qpdf

Or, by going to Ubuntu apps directory:

It is a great tool for PDF manipulation, which is very fast, has very few dependencies. "It can encrypt and linearize files, expose the internals of a PDF file, and do many other operations useful to end users and PDF developers."

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qpdf/

Save this as a shell script, like pdfextractor.sh:

#!/bin/bash

# this function uses 3 arguments:

#     $1 is the first page of the range to extract

#     $2 is the last page of the range to extract

#     $3 is the input file

#     output file will be named "inputfile_pXX-pYY.pdf"

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER 

   -dFirstPage=${1} 

   -dLastPage=${2} 

   -sOutputFile=${3%.pdf}_p${1}-p${2}.pdf 

   ${3}

To run type:

./pdfextractor.sh 4 20 myfile.pdf

1)4 refers to the page it will start the new pdf.

2)20 refers to the page it will end the pdf with.

3)myfile.pdf is the pdf file you want to extract parts.

The output would be myfile_p4_p20.pdf in the same directory the original pdf file.

All this and more information here: Tech Tip

There is a command line utility called pdfseparate.

From the docs:

pdfseparate sample.pdf sample-%d.pdf



extracts  all pages from sample.pdf, if i.e. sample.pdf has 3 pages, it

   produces



sample-1.pdf, sample-2.pdf, sample-3.pdf

Or, to select a single page (in this case, the first page) from the file sample.pdf:

pdfseparate -f 1 -l 1 sample.pdf sample-1.pdf

pdftk (sudo apt-get install pdftk) is a great command line too for PDF manipulation. Here are some examples of what pdftk can do:

   Collate scanned pages

     pdftk A=even.pdf B=odd.pdf shuffle A B output collated.pdf

     or if odd.pdf is in reverse order:

     pdftk A=even.pdf B=odd.pdf shuffle A Bend-1 output collated.pdf



   Join in1.pdf and in2.pdf into a new PDF, out1.pdf

     pdftk in1.pdf in2.pdf cat output out1.pdf

     or (using handles):

     pdftk A=in1.pdf B=in2.pdf cat A B output out1.pdf

     or (using wildcards):

     pdftk *.pdf cat output combined.pdf



   Remove page 13 from in1.pdf to create out1.pdf

     pdftk in.pdf cat 1-12 14-end output out1.pdf

     or:

     pdftk A=in1.pdf cat A1-12 A14-end output out1.pdf



   Burst a single PDF document into pages and dump its data to

   doc_data.txt

     pdftk in.pdf burst



   Rotate the first PDF page to 90 degrees clockwise

     pdftk in.pdf cat 1east 2-end output out.pdf



   Rotate an entire PDF document to 180 degrees

     pdftk in.pdf cat 1-endsouth output out.pdf

In your case, I would do:

     pdftk A=input.pdf cat A<page_range> output output.pdf

In any system that a TeX distribution is installed:

pdfjam <input file> <page ranges> -o <output file>

For example:

pdfjam original.pdf 5-10 -o out.pdf

See https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/79626/8666

Have you tried PDF Mod?

You can for example.. extract pages and save them as pdf.

Description:

PDF Mod is a simple tool for modifying PDF documents. It can rotate, extract, remove
and reorder pages via drag and drop. Multiple documents may be combined via drag
and drop. You may also edit the title, subject, author and keywords of a PDF
document using PDF Mod.

Hope this will useful.

Regars.

I was trying to do the same. All you have to do is:

1. 
   

   install pdftk:

   
   
   

   sudo apt-get install pdftk
   
   

   
   


2. 
   

   if you want to extract random pages:

   
   
   

   pdftk myoldfile.pdf cat 1 2 4 5 output mynewfile.pdf
   
   

   
   


3. 
   

   if you want to extract a range:

   
   
   

   pdftk myoldfile.pdf cat 1-2 4-5 output mynewfile.pdf
   
   

   
   

Please check the source for more infos.

As it turns out, I can do it with imagemagick. If you don't have it, install simply with:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Note 1:
I've tried this with a one-page pdf (I'm learning to use imagemagick, so I didn't want more trouble than necessary). I don't know if/how it will work with multiple pages, but you can extract one page of interest with pdftk:

pdftk A=myfile.pdf cat A1 output page1.pdf

where you indicate the page number to be split out (in the example above, A1 selects the first page).

Note 2:
The resulting image using this procedure will be a raster.

Open the pdf with the command display, which is part of the imagemagick suite:

display file.pdf

Mine looked like this:

^{Click on the image to see a full resolution version}

Now you click on the window and a menu will pop to the side. There, select Transform | Crop.

Back in the main window, you can select the area you want to crop by simply dragging the pointer (classic corner-to-corner selection).

^{Notice the hand-shaped pointer around the image while selecting}

This selection can be refined before proceeding to the next step.

Once you are done, take notice of the little rectangle that appears on the upper left corner (see the image above). It shows the dimensions of the area selected first (e.g. 281x218) and second the coordinates of the first corner (e.g. +256+215).

Write down the dimensions of the selected area; you'll need it at the moment of saving the cropped image.

Now, back at the pop menu (which now is the specific "crop" menu), click the button Crop.

Finally, once you are satisfied with the results of cropping, click on menu File | Save

Navigate to the folder where you want to save the cropped pdf, type a name, click the button Format, on the "Select image format type" window select PDF and click the button Select. Back on the "Browse and select a file" window, click the button Save.

Before saving, imagemagick will ask to "select page geometry". Here, you type the dimensions of your cropped image, using a simple letter "x" to separate width and height.

Now, you can do all this perfectly from the command line (the command is convert with option -crop) -- surely it's faster, but you would have to know beforehand the coordinates of the image you want to extract. Check man convert and an example in their webpage.

PDF Split and Merge is quite useful for this and other PDF manipulation operations.

Download from here

As the original user asked for an interactive tool and not a command line tool: An easy solution is to use any PDF viewer (okular on Kubuntu, evince or even Firefox on Ubuntu) and then just use the standard print dialog, choose "print to PDF file", and then select in the extended settings dialog, which pages to "print". This variant has some drawbacks, as some gimmicks on the original PDF (like rotated pages, forms etc.) might get lost, but it works straightforward for most simple PDFs.

If you want to extract from your PDFs, you can use http://www.sumnotes.net.
It's an amazing tool to extract notes, highlights, and images from PDFs.
You can also watch tutorials on Youtube by typing sumnotes.

I hope you will enjoy it!

Found this tool and am quite happy with it: https://pdf.io/split/