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Split PDF documents into separate pages using PHP (or possibly perl)

How can I split a multi-page PDF file into distinct single page PDF files in PHP on Linux server? Are there any PHP libraries or free command line tools available to do this?

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The most recent version of Ghostscript (v9.06) can do this too. Here is the commandline to be used inside a cmd.exe ‘DOS-Box’ window on a 32-bit Windows system:

 gswin32c.exe                ^
   -o original_page_%03d.pdf ^
   -sDEVICE=pdfwrite         ^
   -sPDFSETTINGS=/prepress   ^
    original-multipage.pdf

-o ...: this indicates the name of the output file(s).
%03d: this part of the filename will be translated into 3-digit numbers, padded by leading 0s, starting from 001 for the first page.
-sPDFSETTINGS=...: is an optional parameter; if used will ensure that all used fonts are embedded and some other settings which in general ensure a high quality output.

Ghostscript is available for Windows. (The link above leads you to the installers: gs906w32.exe and gs906w64.exe. Scroll down to find them…).