If the toolkit Pdftk is available in the system, it will be called to Split a single input PDF document into individual pages.

See the reference for detailed usage of pdftk.

split_pdf(input_filepath = NULL, output_directory = NULL, prefix = "page_")

Arguments

input_filepath

the path of the input PDF file. The default is set to NULL. IF NULL, it prompt the user to select the folder interactively.

output_directory

the path of the output directory

prefix

A string for output filename prefix

Value

this function splits a single input PDF document into individual pages

References

https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

Author

Priyanga Dilini Talagala and Ogan Mancarci

Examples

if (FALSE) { split_pdf() } if (FALSE) { dir <- tempdir() require(lattice) for(i in 1:3) { pdf(file.path(dir, paste("plot", i, ".pdf", sep = ""))) print(xyplot(iris[,1] ~ iris[,i], data = iris)) dev.off() } staple_pdf(input_directory = dir, output_filepath = file.path(dir, 'Full_pdf.pdf')) split_pdf(input_filepath = file.path(dir, paste("Full_pdf.pdf", sep = "")),output_directory = dir ) }