Need to split a multipage PDF into individual files?

August 11, 2013 · Brian

Ghostscript and bash to the rescue. I found out ahead of time that there were 136 pages in my source.pdf.

for i in {1..136}; do
  echo $i;
  gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFirstPage=$i -dLastPage=$i -sOutputFile=$i.pdf source.pdf;
done