{"id":2921,"date":"2026-10-27T11:29:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T11:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2026-10-27T11:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T11:29:24","slug":"free-pdf-splitters-editors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/?p=2921","title":{"rendered":"Free PDF splitters\/Editors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have occasionally done this before, but on this occasion I needed it to split tunes from a set of PDF folk tune books by Paul Hardy.<\/p>\n<p>Initially I thought I would need to edit\/split partial pages to remove multiple tunes on a page, and I tried a free editor,\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdfgear.com\/\">PDFGear<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0 for this. Whilst this looked a decent free editor, I quickly found that the PDFs I was editing appeared to have single embedded images\/entities containing multiple tunes. Musical scores were a particular issue here.<\/p>\n<p>I therefore decided to simplify things and just use a free PDF page splitter and put up with the pages containing extra tunes I didn&#8217;t need. As I did in the past, I used <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pdfsam.org\/\">PDFsam<\/a> <\/strong>basic for this &#8211; you just open the file, type in the selection of pages\/page ranges you want, give it an output filespec and then click run. This worked perfectly and was easy to use.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these tools are useable online, or you can e.g. install a Windows app, which I chose to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have occasionally done this before, but on this occasion I needed it to split tunes from a set of PDF folk tune books by Paul Hardy. Initially I thought I would need to edit\/split partial pages to remove multiple tunes on a page, and I tried a free editor,\u00a0 PDFGear,\u00a0 for this. Whilst this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243],"tags":[16,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2922,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}