pdfimages

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXIT CODES
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO

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),