Pages Extraction Script

[meteorquake]

I thought this script I made might be helpful for anyone who wants to save extracts of what they have open in Sumatra directly from Sumatra.
If you have or put pdftk.exe on your system (it often is there from other installed programs) then, the following will add a menu item to extract page ranges (which can be gapped ranges) - you need to change 'D:\Scripts\pdf-extract.vbs' to wherever you put the script -

ExternalViewers [
...
	[
		CommandLine = "C:\Windows\System32\wscript.exe" "D:\Scripts\pdf-extract.vbs" "%1"
		Name = Extractor
		Filter = *.pdf
	]
...
}

and the script itself as follows which can be saved somewhere, and tweaked however you wish, you can also add it to the explorer "Send To" menu using the same command line as you used just above (for that, run shell:sendto to get to that folder), you will need to change 'C:\Unreg\PdftkBuilderEnhanced\pdftk.exe' to be the location of pdftk.exe on your computer -

Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set oArgs = WScript.Arguments
Set oFs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

For iArg = 0 To oArgs.Count - 1
sFile = oArgs(iArg)

sPg = InputBox("Pages (e.g. 7 4-5 2)" & vbCrLf & oFs.GetFileName(sFile), "PDF Page Extractor"): If sPg = "" Then WScript.Quit

sFileN = InputBox("Filename:", "PDF Page Extractor", Left(sFile, Len(sFile) - Len(oFs.GetExtensionName(sFile)) - 1) & "-extract.pdf"): If sFileN = "" Then WScript.Quit

oShell.Run """C:\Unreg\PdftkBuilderEnhanced\pdftk.exe"" """ & sFile & """ cat " & sPg & " output """ & sFileN & """", 3

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[GitHubRulesOK]

Not bad but you can use one cmd line to extract a single page or a whole file without slower VBS as an intermediate. Using
PDFtotext which is often simpler or use MuPDF or even GhostScript all have simple extraction syntax for adjusting via CMD "choices"

[meteorquake]

Your suggestion is a bit ambiguous - would it ask for page ranges (e.g. 10,17-20) and destination file (e.g. r:\lamium.pdf) ?

(On a side note I would say though that VBS isn't slow; one of its virtues is it is very responsive, and here allows you to customise responses such as output name.)

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[GitHubRulesOK]

There were several replies for similar functions in the past so perhaps this one illustrates one approach it can be trimmed down a lot and still offer several functions like OCR for image PDF or output to PNG a selection when it was last updated

It needs a darn good overhaul but as MuPDF 1.20 was last 32 bit it still works for me (on 32 bit win10) and I do have personal 32bit Mutool 1.25

Key line for above comment is set /p pages="Range = " which in theory could be written into a CMD "oneliner" but when error checking and adding descriptions to be used standalone becomes 160 lines.cmd !! https://github.com/GitHubRulesOK/MyNotes/blob/master/AppNotes/SumatraPDF/Addins/ExportPng/ExportPng.cmd

I agree on timing not a lot of delay using VBS or WSH JScript but it is CMD >VBS>wsh.exe >other.EXE whereas CMD >other.exe can sometimes avoid some bigger temporary scripting. But I do use double-click vbs/Jscript on occasion where syntax is better for file building