fix a pdf file

fix a pdf file

I paid to scan something and after p70 they put pp70-71 on p70,
pp71-72 on p71, pp72-73 on p72 and so on..

I got it to save only even pages, but I need to be able to separate
the pages.


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Re: split two-pages pdf scanned together

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:06:59 +0000, vjp2.at ci disse:

> I paid to scan something and after p70 they put pp70-71 on p70, pp71-72
> on p71, pp72-73 on p72 and so on..
[...]
so you need to split at half these pages

> I got it to save only even pages, but I need to be able to separate the
> pages.
[...]

for every problem a solution exist, only it must be found, in your case, 
this task may be performed in several ways. simpliest is using

*scantailor*
- http://scantailor.sourceforge.net/

before using scantailor you must extract all images inside pdf

you can easiily do this with

*pdfimages* (in xpdf-utils)
- http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html

syntax:

pdfimages -f  -l file.pdf image.root

where -f and -l are the first ad the last page with images to extract

or, more simply, you can, with a graphic program (even a simply like 
irfanview or xnview) cut these images at half (taking coords of x,y and 
hight and width of odd/even page)

once splitted pages, you can recombine them with all other pages using 
xnview (if you live on windowsian planet) or *swiftpdf*

i suggest, first of cut, to rename pages with two sheets on one, with a 
pattern like 0001_A (for odd) and 000_B (for even), so order is preserved 
having

0071_A
0071_B

and so on...

(even comes after odd, like B after A in alphabetcal order, that OS uses)
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Re: fix a pdf file

vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:

> I paid to scan something and after p70 they put pp70-71 on p70,
> pp71-72 on p71, pp72-73 on p72 and so on..
> 
> I got it to save only even pages, but I need to be able to separate
> the pages.

There are several tools available for this, e.g.
pdf split and merge http://www.pdfsam.org/
pdftk http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ 
pdftk+GUI http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/
pdfill free tools http://www.pdfill.com/

HTH, Wilfried
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