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),