[Gllug] Extracting images from PDF

Ryan Cartwright ryan at crimperman.org
Fri Mar 10 18:06:12 UTC 2006


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?
> 
> JD

if you want to extract them batch style then, as others have suggested, 
pdfimages will help. Kpdf allows you to select images and text from a 
pdf and copy them to clipboard so you could do it that way if you want 
specific ones and not all of them.

HTH
Ryan
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