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# pdfimages - Unix, Linux Command

# 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 xpdfrc(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.

Tag | Description
--- | ---
-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:

Tag | Description
--- | ---
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)

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

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