pdfsplit 0.4.2

Description:

pdfsplit 0.4.2

Pdfsplit (formally named pdfslice) is a Python command-line tool
and module for splitting and rearranging pages of a PDF document.
Using it you can pick single pages or ranges of pages from a PDF document
and store them in a new PDF document. To do this you describe these pages
with the simple Python slice notation, e.g. 0:10 for the first ten
pages, -10:0 for the last ten pages, 0::2 for all even pages,
-1::-1 for all pages in reversed order, etc.
Basically, pdfsplit wrapps pyPdf,
a package written by Mathieu Fenniak which contains the needed
functionality in its core, but does not provide a simple method of
using it easily from the command-line or from a Python module.

Features

save arbitrary slices of a given PDF document in a new PDF document
install a Python module named pdfsplit.py
install a Python command-line script named pdfsplit
specify arbitrary slices using Python notation, e.g. 0:10:2
specify pages using normal page numbers (starting at 1), e.g. -p 1-5
allow patterns for output files
provide a Unittest test suite



Examples
You can use pdfsplit as a Python module e.g. like in the following
interactive Python session:
>>> from pdfsplit import splitPages
>>>
>>> splitPages("file.pdf", [slice(0, 1, None)]) # i.e. [0]
written: file-split.pdf
>>> splitPages("file.pdf", [slice(None, None, 2)]) # i.e. [::2]
written: file-split.pdf
In addition there is a script named pdfsplit, which can be used
more easily from the system command-line like this (you can see many
more examples when typing pdfsplit -h on the command-line):
$ pdfsplit 0 file.pdf
written: file-split.pdf
$ pdfsplit ::2 file.pdf
written: file-split.pdf
$ pdfsplit -p -o "%(dirname)s/%(base)s-p%(indices)s%(ext)s" 3-5 file.pdf
written: file-p3-5.pdf