EXCELLENT solution was [Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?]

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net>]

"pdfseparate" is the tool I need.
I need to tweak content of some tables in a large PDF document.
Wish I had known about it ~2 years ago.
*THANK YOU*

On 7/20/25 9:19 AM, Roger Price wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > On 7/20/25 7:24 AM, Roger Price wrote:
> > >      mutool merge -o Page-n.pdf <100-page.pdf> n
> > >
> > > where <100-page.pdf> is the original file
> > >         Page-n.pdf is the one page file extracted
> > Is some demo or tutorial that would clarify what it tries to do?
>
> I have a 2 page PDF called Documents/Permis.pdf (My driving license).
> I want to put the first page which has my photo in file Photo.pdf .
>
> The command I use is
>
>     rprice@maria ~ mutool merge -o Photo.pdf Documents/Permis.pdf 1
>
> The "1" says I want only the page 1. I got file Photo.pdf with my face.
>
> Program pdfseparate could do the same job.  The command is
>
>     rprice@maria ~ pdfseparate -f 1 -l 1 Documents/Permis.pdf Photo.%d.pdf
>
> and again I got file Photo.1.pdf with my photo.   Roger