[pdftex] Extracting Graphics from PDF

[Reinhard Kotucha]

>>>>> "John" == John S Dey <jsdey at mindspring.com> writes:

    > Greetings: Has there been a package developed for extracting
    > graphics elements from pdf similar to the way pdfpages extracts
    > pages?

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/



pdfimages(1)                                         pdfimages(1)


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, scans one or more pages, PDF-file, 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).

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

SEE ALSO
       xpdf(1),   pdftops(1),   pdftotext(1),   pdfinfo(1),    pdffonts(1),
       pdftoppm(1), xpdfrc(5)
       http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/


Regards,
  Reinhard

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