#!/bin/bash # Check if the input file is provided if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then echo "Usage: $0 input.pdf" exit 1 fi # Input PDF file input_pdf="$1" # Check if the file exists if [ ! -f "$input_pdf" ]; then echo "Error: File '$input_pdf' not found." exit 1 fi # Create an output directory output_dir="${input_pdf%.pdf}_pages" mkdir -p "$output_dir" # Get the number of pages in the PDF total_pages=$(pdftk "$input_pdf" dump_data | grep NumberOfPages | awk '{print $2}') # Split each page into a separate PDF echo "Splitting '$input_pdf' into separate pages..." for ((i=1; i<=total_pages; i++)); do output_file="$output_dir/page_$i.pdf" pdftk "$input_pdf" cat "$i" output "$output_file" echo "Created $output_file" done echo "All pages have been split and saved in '$output_dir'."