Re: extract pages from pdf file?

[Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hello Paul,

Paul Goyette writes:
> I've got poppler-utils installed but the pdfunite tools complains
> that the source files are encrypted.  I don't know how to decrypt
> these pages as they were (successfully) extracted from a larger
> document using pdfsplit.  xpdf has no problems rendering either
> the source file nor the individual pages.
>
> So, is there another pdf utility that I can use to recombine a few
> pages from the original document?
>
> TIA
> [...]

Possibly worth to try is `mutool` provided by print/mupdf, e.g.:

 $ mutool merge -o output.pdf input1.pdf 1-3 input2.pdf 4-6

Will merge in output.pdf (PDF that will be created), from page 1-3 of
input1.pdf and from page 4-6 of input2.pdf.