pdfimages
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: 22 January 2004
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NAME
pdfimages - Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor (version 3.00)SYNOPSIS
pdfimages [options] PDF-file image-rootDESCRIPTION
Pdfimages saves images from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file as Portable Pixmap (PPM), Portable Bitmap (PBM), or JPEG files.Pdfimages reads the PDF file PDF-file, scans one or more pages, and writes one PPM, PBM, or JPEG file for each image, image-root-nnn.xxx, where nnn is the image number and xxx is the image type (.ppm, .pbm, .jpg).
OPTIONS
- -f number
- Specifies the first page to scan.
- -l number
- Specifies the last page to scan.
- -j
- Normally, all images are written as PBM (for monochrome images) or PPM (for non-monochrome images) files. With this option, images in DCT format are saved as JPEG files. All non-DCT images are saved in PBM/PPM format as usual.
- -opw password
- Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this will bypass all security restrictions.
- -upw password
- Specify the user password for the PDF file.
- -q
- Don't print any messages or errors.
- -v
- Print copyright and version information.
- -h
- Print usage information. (-help and --help are equivalent.)
EXIT CODES
The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:- 0
- No error.
- 1
- Error opening a PDF file.
- 2
- Error opening an output file.
- 3
- Error related to PDF permissions.
- 99
- Other error.
AUTHOR
The pdfimages software and documentation are copyright 1998-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC.SEE ALSO
pdftops(1), pdftotext(1), pdfinfo(1), pdffonts(1), pdftoppm(1),
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