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

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

Feb. 3, 2012, 6:50 a.m. — mmaki

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.

Alternative one-liners

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

 $ ps2pdf -dFirstPage=3 -dLastPage=10 input.pdf output.pdf

Feb. 15, 2012, 11:08 a.m. — Anon6y5E4Use

Explanation

ps2pdf is a script that comes with Ghostscript - despite the name, it can accept PDF files as input, not just postscript files.

Limitations

Only a single contiguous range of pages can be specified.