'pdfseparate': Format output file name as page number with leading zeroes

pdfseparate requires to specify %d as PDF-page-pattern which is replaced by the page number.

$ pdfseparate CFL_1115_ISSUU.pdf cfl-%d.pdf works. It sets separated output file names as cfl-1.pdf, cfl-2.pdf, ..., cfl-10.pdf etc.

Now I need to add leading 0 to fix the file name string length. So when I try to use formatting characters in command $ pdfseparate CFL_1115_ISSUU.pdf cfl-%04d.pdf, it gives error Syntax Error: 'cfl-%04d.pdf' must contain '%d' if more than one page should be extracted

Can anybody suggest if such formatting is possible?

1 Answer

On my system (Mac OS X), using the most recent version of Poppler, v0.42.0, this command works as expected:

$ pdfseparate -l 10 PDF32000_2008.pdf cfl-%04d.pdf
$ ls -l cfl-*.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 11475 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0001.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 91252 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0002.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 8334441 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0003.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 8334443 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0004.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 8334444 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0005.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 93209 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0006.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 89540 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0007.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 64383 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0008.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 8334444 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0009.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 116229 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0010.pdf