Comments on: PDF page extraction

Question: PDF page extraction

piro — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:14:42 -0800

How can I extract every 14th page from a PDF?

Using Adobe Acrobat 7 Pro, I'm hoping to extract every 14th page (beginning with p.4) from a large document. Is there a quick way to do automate this, or is brute force my only option?

By: RustyBrooks

RustyBrooks — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:23:29 -0800

I used something called "pdftools" long ago that had a tool called "pdfsplit" among others (these were command line tools). Doing some google searches, I'm having a hard time finding it, because there are lots of things called "pdftools" and "pdfsplit". However, although this is not it, it looks like it might do what you want.

By: Malor

Malor — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:43:46 -0800

You can also print to the PDF printer you get with Pro... print 4-last page, step 14, in print options.

By: Malor

Malor — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:47:17 -0800

After thinking about that a second more... it may then print 14, 28, 42, and so on, rather than the 4,18,32,46 you want.

If that's the case, print every page from 4 to the end to an intermediate file (this strips out pages 1 through 3). Open the new file, and now print all pages, step 14, and you should get what you need.

By: easyasy3k

easyasy3k — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:15:14 -0800

I think RustyBrooks was thinking of pdftk, which comprises about half of the book PDF Hacks.

As useful as pdftk is, it looks like you'd have to generate the number list yourself (it can only do even and odd).

By: piro

piro — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:31:38 -0800

With Rusty's link, I still had to generate the list myself, but it worked spiffily from there.

Thanks, all.