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pdfimages - Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor (version 3.00)

pdfimages [options] PDF-file image-root

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 nnnis the image number and xxxis the image type (.ppm, .pbm, .jpg).

• -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.)

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.

The pdfimages software and documentation are copyright 1998-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC.

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