Re: Restating question "How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?"

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net>]

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.
>
> [ … ]
>
> > 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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