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 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.