Split PDF files easily using Ubuntu scripts
One of the fun parts of reinstalling an OS (yes, I think it is fun!), is to discover new software and new ways of doing things. As such, it works as a “digital shower”, getting rid of unnecessary stuff that has piled up. Trying to also get rid of some physical mess, I am scanning some piles of paper documents. This leaves me with some large multi-page PDFs that I would like to split up easily. In the spirit of software carpentry I looked for a simple solution for splitting up a PDF file, and came across the command “burst” in the little terminal application pdftk. To use it on Ubuntu, you will first need to install it, using the terminal command: ...