[Gllug] Re: Extracting images from PDF

Craig Millar me at craigmillar.org
Fri Mar 10 17:32:22 UTC 2006


On 10/03/06 17:16 +0000, Jon Dye wrote:
> I have some PDF files which contain some text and some images.  I have
> lost the original image files (bitmaps) used to create the PDF files and
> I was wondering if there is any way to extract the images from the PDF file.
> 
> Does such a tool exist for linux?

Try pdfimages which is is included with xpdf (SUSE) and xpdf-utils (Debian)
and I'm sure by other distros under similar package names.

hth
Craig
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