Splitting a PDF document in two without purchasing a PDF editing tool
Acrobat Reader allow us to easily save a copy of the PDF document. How can I save only from page 5 to 10 without purchasing a PDF editing tool?
You can send page 5 to 10 to a PDF-printer in such a case. Installing a printer that can print to pdf is freeware, and can be done with little loss.
There are several posibilities:
- You can use the freeware pdftk. It's an command line program that can extract pages from existing PDF pages and save then again as PDF. There are also several GUI based tools available that base on pdftk.
- PDF split and merge
- Furthermore there is even an free online service for extracting PDF pages.
If you install pdftk you can do it with the command pdftk cat. The syntax is weird though, so copy carefully:
pdftk in.pdf cat 2-20 output out.pdf
Another free online tool that does what you are asking:
Extract PDF pages: http://www.sejda.com/extract-pdf-pages
Upload the file, specify the page ranges that you want to extract to a separate file (10-20, 22-) and click "Split".
Its an online service, nothing to install.
There's a command line tool as well, if you prefer that: Sejda PDF command line tool
./bin/sejda-console extractpages -f /input/file.pdf --pageSelection 4-10,20- -o /outputDir
Better than the printer solution since this won't change/alter the original PDF pages.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers.