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pdfimages — Utility for extracting images from PDFs. More information: <https://manned.org/pdfimages>.

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Problem

How to use the pdfimages command: Utility for extracting images from PDFs. More information: <https://manned.org/pdfimages>.

Solution

pdfimages — Utility for extracting images from PDFs. More information: <https://manned.org/pdfimages>.

Extract all images from a PDF file and save them as PNGs:
pdfimages -png {{path/to/file.pdf}} {{filename_prefix}}


Extract images from pages 3 to 5:
pdfimages -f {{3}} -l {{5}} {{path/to/file.pdf}} {{filename_prefix}}


Extract images from a PDF file and include the page number in the output filenames:
pdfimages -p {{path/to/file.pdf}} {{filename_prefix}}


List information about all the images in a PDF file:
pdfimages -list {{path/to/file.pdf}}

Code Snippets

Extract all images from a PDF file and save them as PNGs

pdfimages -png {{path/to/file.pdf}} {{filename_prefix}}

Extract images from pages 3 to 5

pdfimages -f {{3}} -l {{5}} {{path/to/file.pdf}} {{filename_prefix}}

Extract images from a PDF file and include the page number in the output filenames

pdfimages -p {{path/to/file.pdf}} {{filename_prefix}}

List information about all the images in a PDF file

pdfimages -list {{path/to/file.pdf}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/pdfimages

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