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Split PDF to individual pages using FPDI and FPDF
<?php
/**
* Split PDF file
*
* <p>Split all of the pages from a larger PDF files into
* single-page PDF files.</p>
*
* @package FPDF required http://www.fpdf.org/
* @package FPDI required http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/
* @param string $filename The filename of the PDF to split
* @param string $end_directory The end directory for split PDF (original PDF's directory by default)
* @return void
*/
function split_pdf($filename, $end_directory = false)
{
require_once('fpdf/fpdf.php');
require_once('fpdi/fpdi.php');
$end_directory = $end_directory ? $end_directory : './';
$new_path = preg_replace('/[\/]+/', '/', $end_directory.'/'.substr($filename, 0, strrpos($filename, '/')));
if (!is_dir($new_path))
{
// Will make directories under end directory that don't exist
// Provided that end directory exists and has the right permissions
mkdir($new_path, 0777, true);
}
$pdf = new FPDI();
$pagecount = $pdf->setSourceFile($filename); // How many pages?
// Split each page into a new PDF
for ($i = 1; $i <= $pagecount; $i++) {
$new_pdf = new FPDI();
$new_pdf->AddPage();
$new_pdf->setSourceFile($filename);
$new_pdf->useTemplate($new_pdf->importPage($i));
try {
$new_filename = $end_directory.str_replace('.pdf', '', $filename).'_'.$i.".pdf";
$new_pdf->Output($new_filename, "F");
echo "Page ".$i." split into ".$new_filename."<br />\n";
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Caught exception: ', $e->getMessage(), "\n";
}
}
}
// Create and check permissions on end directory!
split_pdf("filename.pdf", 'split/');
?>
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KhanhNS commented Dec 28, 2023

FPDI can only handle PDF document up to PDF ver 1.4. Be careful when sett source pdf file.

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