1 pdfimages(1) pdfimages(1)
6 pdfimages - Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor
10 pdfimages [options] PDF-file image-root
13 Pdfimages saves images from a Portable Document Format
14 (PDF) file as Portable Pixmap (PPM), Portable Bitmap
17 Pdfimages reads the PDF file, scans one or more pages,
18 PDF-file, and writes one PPM, PBM, or JPEG file for each
19 image, image-root-nnn.xxx, where nnn is the image number
20 and xxx is the image type (.ppm, .pbm, .jpg).
22 NB: pdfimages extracts the raw image data from the PDF
23 file, without performing any additional transforms. Any
24 rotation, clipping, color inversion, etc. done by the PDF
25 content stream is ignored.
28 Pdfimages reads a configuration file at startup. It first
29 tries to find the user's private config file, ~/.xpdfrc.
30 If that doesn't exist, it looks for a system-wide config
31 file, typically /usr/local/etc/xpdfrc (but this location
32 can be changed when pdfimages is built). See the
33 xpdfrc(5) man page for details.
36 Many of the following options can be set with configura-
37 tion file commands. These are listed in square brackets
38 with the description of the corresponding command line
42 Specifies the first page to scan.
45 Specifies the last page to scan.
47 -j Normally, all images are written as PBM (for
48 monochrome images) or PPM (for non-monochrome
49 images) files. With this option, images in DCT
50 format are saved as JPEG files. All non-DCT images
51 are saved in PBM/PPM format as usual.
54 Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Pro-
55 viding this will bypass all security restrictions.
58 Specify the user password for the PDF file.
60 -q Don't print any messages or errors. [config file:
63 -v Print copyright and version information.
65 -h Print usage information. (-help and --help are
69 The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
73 1 Error opening a PDF file.
75 2 Error opening an output file.
77 3 Error related to PDF permissions.
82 The pdfimages software and documentation are copyright
83 1998-2007 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
86 xpdf(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1), pdfinfo(1), pdf-
87 fonts(1), pdftoppm(1), xpdfrc(5)
88 http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
92 27 February 2007 pdfimages(1)