pdfimages(1) pdfimages(1) 15 August 2011 NAME pdfimages - Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor (version 3.03) 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. -list Instead of writing the images, list the images along with various information for each image. Do not specify an image-root with this option. The following information is listed for each image: page the page number containing the image num the image number type the image type: image - an opaque image mask - a monochrome mask image smask - a soft-mask image stencil - a monochrome mask image used for painting a color or pattern Note: Tranparency in images is represented in PDF using a separate image for the image and the mask/smask. The mask/smask used as part of a transparent image always immediately follows the image in the image list. - 1 - Formatted: November 7, 2024 pdfimages(1) pdfimages(1) 15 August 2011 width image width (in pixels) height image height (in pixels) Note: the image width/height is the size of the embedded image, not the size the image will be rendered at. color image color space: gray - Gray rgb - RGB cmyk - CMYK lab - L*a*b icc - ICC Based index - Indexed Color sep - Separation devn - DeviceN comp number of color components bpc bits per component enc encoding: image - raster image (may be Flate or LZW compressed but does not use an image encoding) jpeg - Joint Photographic Experts Group jp2 - JPEG2000 jbig2 - Joint Bi-Level Image Experts Group ccitt - CCITT Group 3 or Group 4 Fax interp "yes" if the interpolation is to be performed when scaling up the image object ID the image dictionary object ID (number and generation) -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. - 2 - Formatted: November 7, 2024 pdfimages(1) pdfimages(1) 15 August 2011 -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 1998-2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC. SEE ALSO pdfdetach(1) pdffonts(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftocairo(1), pdftohtml(1), pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1) - 3 - Formatted: November 7, 2024