pdfimages

Contents:
  1. Installing on Ubuntu
  2. Usage

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pdfimages is a PDF image extractor tool which saves the images in a PDF file to PPM, PBM, JPEG or JPEG 2000 file(s) format.

Installing on Ubuntu

Install poppler-utils:

Extracting embedded images from a PDF:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/150100/extracting-embedded-images-from-a-pdf#150106

Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base:
https://poppler.freedesktop.org/

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Usage

Usage: pdfimages [options] <PDF-file> <image-root>

option -all will extract images in original format.
option -j will extract images as .jpg (caveat: images are converted and usually size is larger than original)
-png -tiff -j -jp2 -jbig2 -ccitt formats supported



pdfimages(1) - Linux man page: https://linux.die.net/man/1/pdfimages

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