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.
- -p
- Include page numbers in output file names.
- -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¶
pdffonts(1),
pdfinfo(1),
pdftocairo(1),
pdftohtml(1),
pdftoppm(1),
pdftops(1),
pdftotext(1)
