psselect command usage to extract particular pages from PostScript files

Rams4my has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi All, I'm trying to use psselect command to extract few pages from PostScript file. Used syntax as Psselect -p1-10 file1.ps file2.ps; I'm running that command in perl script on unix flotform. But getting error like..no psselect command. Is there any other way to extract few pagesfrom PostScript file? Need help Thanks Ram

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Re: psselect command usage to extract particular pages from PostScript files by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Oct 16, 2015 at 09:30 UTC
..."extract few pages from PostScript" This is pain in the ass. Sometimes i had less or more success with something like this: `convert foo.ps foo.pdf getpdftext.pl foo.pdf` [download] `getpdftext.pl` comes with CAM::PDF. Regards, Karl ŤThe Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostropheť	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: psselect command usage to extract particular pages from PostScript files by Anonymous Monk on Oct 16, 2015 at 01:45 UTC
But getting error like..no psselect command. Is there any other way to extract few pagesfrom PostScript file? Install "psselect" Or install http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php Trt https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/CAM-PDF/bin/getpdfpage.pl to see if it would work	[reply]