pdfimages(1)

1pdfimages(1)                General Commands Manual               pdfimages(1)
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NAME

6       pdfimages  -  Portable  Document  Format (PDF) image extractor (version
7       3.00)
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SYNOPSIS

10       pdfimages [options] PDF-file image-root
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DESCRIPTION

13       Pdfimages saves images from a Portable Document Format  (PDF)  file  as
14       Portable Pixmap (PPM), Portable Bitmap (PBM), or JPEG files.
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16       Pdfimages  reads  the  PDF  file PDF-file, scans one or more pages, and
17       writes one PPM, PBM, or JPEG file for each  image,  image-root-nnn.xxx,
18       where  nnn  is  the image number and xxx is the image type (.ppm, .pbm,
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CONFIGURATION FILE

22       Pdfimages reads a configuration file at startup.   It  first  tries  to
23       find the user's private config file, ~/.xpdfrc.  If that doesn't exist,
24       it looks for a system-wide  config  file,  /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc.   See  the
25       xpdfrc(5) man page for details.
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OPTIONS

28       Many  of  the following options can be set with configuration file com‐
29       mands.  These are listed in square brackets with the description of the
30       corresponding command line option.
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32       -f number
33              Specifies the first page to scan.
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36              Specifies the last page to scan.
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38       -j     Normally,  all images are written as PBM (for monochrome images)
39              or PPM (for non-monochrome images)  files.   With  this  option,
40              images  in  DCT  format  are  saved  as JPEG files.  All non-DCT
41              images are saved in PBM/PPM format as usual.
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43       -opw password
44              Specify the owner password for the  PDF  file.   Providing  this
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47       -upw password
48              Specify the user password for the PDF file.
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50       -q     Don't print any messages or errors.  [config file: errQuiet]
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52       -v     Print copyright and version information.
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54       -h     Print usage information.  (-help and --help are equivalent.)
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EXIT CODES

57       The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
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59       0      No error.
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61       1      Error opening a PDF file.
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65       3      Error related to PDF permissions.
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AUTHOR

70       The  pdfimages software and documentation are copyright 1998-2004 Glyph
71       & Cog, LLC.
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