Split a PDF file (using iText)Tag(s): IO Open Source
This HowTo is based on the iText package. You need a recent version (ex. 2.*)
This a command line utility. You specify the pdf file to be split. Each page is extracted to its own pdf file.
/*
* java SplitPDFFile file.pdf
*
* gives file-001.pdf ... file-nnn.pdf
*
* itext-2.1.5.jar
*/
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfCopy;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfImportedPage;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader;
public class SplitPDFFile {
/**
* @param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
String inFile = args[0].toLowerCase();
System.out.println ("Reading " + inFile);
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(inFile);
int n = reader.getNumberOfPages();
System.out.println ("Number of pages : " + n);
int i = 0;
while ( i < n ) {
String outFile = inFile.substring(0, inFile.indexOf(".pdf"))
+ "-" + String.format("%03d", i + 1) + ".pdf";
System.out.println ("Writing " + outFile);
Document document = new Document(reader.getPageSizeWithRotation(1));
PdfCopy writer = new PdfCopy(document, new FileOutputStream(outFile));
document.open();
PdfImportedPage page = writer.getImportedPage(reader, ++i);
writer.addPage(page);
document.close();
writer.close();
}
}
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
/* example :
java SplitPDFFile d:\temp\x\tx.pdf
Reading d:\temp\x\tx.pdf
Number of pages : 3
Writing d:\temp\x\tx-001.pdf
Writing d:\temp\x\tx-002.pdf
Writing d:\temp\x\tx-003.pdf
*/
}
}
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