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Use pdftk to Manipulating PDF Files
It is suggested that you use Python modules instead of pdftk to manipulating PDFs for several reasons.
First,
even though pdftk is a great command-line tool,
it is hard to remember its syntax.
On the contratry,
Python code is easy to read and understand (even though it is more verbose …
Extracting PDF Pages Using the Python Package PyPDF
The Python package PyPDF can be used to extract pages from a PDF file. The function aiutil.pdf.extract_pages is a wrapper over PyPDF which makes it even easier to extract pages from a PDF file.
Convert PDF to EPS
There are tons of tools for converting PDF pictures to EPS pictures in Linux.
The pdf2ps command is a good one.
It produces EPS pictures without losing much resolution.
The general purpose tools convert
(from the ImageMagick package) does not produce as good quality EPS figures.