[PLUG] Extract Image from pdf

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Mon Jul 5 01:04:16 UTC 2010


On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 16:07:01 -0700
Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> dijo:

>On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Richard C. Steffens
><rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Any favorite tools for extracting/converting a pdf image to another
>> image format?
>
>There is a useful utility called pdfimages which extracts images from
>pdf files. It is part of the Debian package xpdf-utils.

Also, try Okular. You can select areas and save them to the clipboard
as images or as text (if the PDF has text, which apparently yours do
not). Once you have the images you can rearrange them with something
like Scribus, then export a new PDF.



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