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-root
DESCRIPTION
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),