[olug] Extracting single pdf pages from a 1,600 page pdf

[Eric Pierce]

I thought I had it with this:
convert pages1to5.pdf picom_%03d.pdf

But it doesn't preserve the text in the pdf.  Go figure... it's an ImageMajick
command.

Eric

--- Eric Pierce <eric_olug at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to turn a single 1,600 page pdf document into 1,600 pdf files of
> each page from the initial document.
> 
> I figure a sleek bash (sed/awk) script could be written to pull this off, but
> I'm not sure where the page breaks are occuring.  Anyone have any experience
> in
> with this?
> 
> Here's a sample (5 pgs) of the pdf I'm trying to work with.
> http://epierce.freeshell.org/misc/pages1to5.pdf
> 
> I'll be googling in the meantime.
> Eric Pierce
> 
> 
> 
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