On 7/22/25 11:19 AM, David Wright wrote:
On Tue 22 Jul 2025 at 10:14:37 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
On 7/20/25 5:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm running Debian 12.8.
I have a 100+ page PDF document.
I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file.
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I should have put more "em-FAY-sis" on my goal for this thread being
learning how to extract specific pages of a large PDF document.[1] I
had not fully appreciated how graphically oriented the PDF format is.
The sub-goal being to perceive the the byte level structure of *that*
page in order to extract the semantic content perceived by a human. I
would then edit/reformat the content to be *useful* to a different
target audience.
It's very simple to burst a document into individual pages with pdftk:
$ pdftk document.pdf burst
$
I'm running Debian 12.8 and package install failed with
Failed to fetch
http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-17/openjdk-17-jre
Don't know if upgrade to Debian 12.8 would resolve the issue.
In any case an upgrade is not feasible at the moment ;{
The manpage does look interesting.
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