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Can I pdfcrop a specific page out of a pdf containing several pages, say I want page 3 from a pdf that has four pages

Jiapan
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Yes, but you should use a two-step process:

  1. Extract the page of interest.

    This can be done using The PDF Toolkit:

    pdftk in.pdf cat 3 output out.pdf

    You can also extract it using the following minimal TeX document

    \documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\begin{document}
\includepdf[page=3]{in}% Extract only page 3 from in.pdf
\end{document}

  2. Use pdfcrop:

    pdfcrop out.pdf

If the main intent is to include only page 3 of some larger, multi-page document, then you can include it via pdfpages

\includepdf[page=3]{in}

or via graphicx

\includegraphics[page=3]{in}

Both of the above options allow you to trim the inclusion, if needed.

Werner
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  • Yes, that's good solution. Thanks :). I also found that you can use Adobe Acrobat to extract a specific page - on the left panel of Adobe Acrobat click thumbnail tab and then right click on the page you want to extract, select extract pages from the pop up window :) – Jiapan Oct 24 '16 at 03:13
  • @Jiapan: Of course, if you have professional software for doing this, then that'll work too. You can also print page 3 of the PDF to PDF using PDF Creator... – Werner Oct 24 '16 at 04:00