66.22 PDF Select Pages from a Document

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To select specific pages from a pdf document we can use pdftk and its cat command. See Section 66.8 for further details and examples.

pdftk mydoc.pdf cat 3-5 output mycut.pdf

Named documents can also be used. Here we replace the first page of the second document with the first document:

pdftk A=doc01.pdf B=doc02.pdf cat A B2-6 output mycut.pdf


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