[Gllug] Extracting images from PDF

[Rich Walker]

Jon Dye <jon at pecorous.co.uk> writes:

> 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?

pdfimages foo.pdf bar

will generate a whole list of files with the prefix "bar", one per image
in the pdf.

cheers, Rich.

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