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How to cut out pages from a PDF file using ghostscript or other free command line tools

A single page, or multiple pages, preferably with tools that exist not only in Linux.

by openiduser3 on Jan. 31, 2012, 8:17 p.m.

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Cut select pages from a pdf file and create a new file from those pages. 

bash$  pdftk input.pdf cat 2-4 7 9-10 output output.pdf

— by openiduser23 on Feb. 3, 2012, 5:50 a.m.

Explanation

pdftk is the PDF Toolkit

input.pdf is the input file.

cat 2-4 7 9-10 concatenate (combine) pages 2,3,4,7,9,10 of input.pdf.

output output.pdf the resulting pdf file containing the above pages.