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).
CONFIGURATION FILE
Pdfimages reads a configuration file at
startup. It first tries to find the user's private config file,
~/.xpdfrc. If that doesn't exist, it looks for a system-wide config
file, /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc. See the (5)
man page for details.
OPTIONS
Many of the following options can be set with
configuration file commands. These are listed in square brackets
with the description of the corresponding command line option.
- -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. [config file:
errQuiet]
- -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
xpdf(1),
pdftops(1),
pdftotext(1),
pdfinfo(1),
pdffonts(1),
pdftoppm(1),
(5)