Split multi page PDF file into single pages

Question

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Split PDF documents into separate pages using PHP (or possibly perl)

How can I split a multi-page PDF file into distinct single page PDF files in PHP on Linux server? Are there any PHP libraries or free command line tools available to do this?

Solution 1

The most recent version of Ghostscript (v9.06) can do this too. Here is the commandline to be used inside a cmd.exe 'DOS-Box' window on a 32-bit Windows system:

 gswin32c.exe                ^
   -o original_page_%03d.pdf ^
   -sDEVICE=pdfwrite         ^
   -sPDFSETTINGS=/prepress   ^
    original-multipage.pdf

-o ...: this indicates the name of the output file(s).
%03d: this part of the filename will be translated into 3-digit numbers, padded by leading 0s, starting from 001 for the first page.
-sPDFSETTINGS=...: is an optional parameter; if used will ensure that all used fonts are embedded and some other settings which in general ensure a high quality output.

Ghostscript is available for Windows. (The link above leads you to the installers: gs906w32.exe and gs906w64.exe. Scroll down to find them...).

Solution 2

You can use Pdftk

exec("pdftk " . $pdflargeFile . " burst output " . $outputPath);

Comments

[Muhammad Qasim]

can this be used on windows also???

[Baba]

yes it runs on windows see pdflabs.com/docs/install-pdftk

[Muhammad Qasim]

Does this snippet will work on windows with ghostscript v9.05?

[Muhammad Qasim]

It didn't work. Are you sure its for splitting pdf file or for joining???

[Muhammad Qasim]

Kurt, can you please explain it a bit more. I didn't get it. Thanks

[Baba]

See : pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-cli-examples Split Select Pages from Multiple PDFs into a New Document pdftk A=one.pdf B=two.pdf cat A1-7 B1-5 A8 output combined.pdf

[Baba]

Use pdftk largepdfile.pdf burst and tell me that you get

[Muhammad Qasim]

Yes thats what I wanted but using "burst" in this way also creates a text file. Anyway to escape this?

[Muhammad Qasim]

OK. Will I be able to use it on Linux in the same way? if not what I would need to change?

[Baba]

@Muhammad Qasim it something simple and not enough for you to change

[Muhammad Qasim]

I think .exe will not run on Linux (don't know much about Linux), how to install it for Linux and how to add it to the PATH?

[Kurt Pfeifle]

@MuhammadQasim: Why, do you think, did I explicitely write 'the most recent version of Ghostscript'? And why did I even quote that version, you think?! -- So no, it doesn't work with v9.05.

[Kurt Pfeifle]

@MuhammadQasim: I updated the answer to add some better explanation of the individual parameters used.

[Martin Schröder]

@MuhammadQasim: Do you need that for Linux (as you say in your question) or Windows or ...?

[Baba]

It Supporst Linux FeeBDS , Ubuto or SuSE RMP .... already given you installation link pdflabs.com/docs/install-pdftk

[MrCalvin]

if it does require java it should have been specified in the answer