pdfimages(1)


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), Portable Network Graphics
   (PNG), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), JPEG, JPEG2000, or JBIG2 files.

   Pdfimages reads the PDF file PDF-file, scans one  or  more  pages,  and
   writes  one  file  for each image, image-root-nnn.xxx, where nnn is the
   image number and xxx is the image type (.ppm, .pbm, .png,  .tif,  .jpg,
   jp2, jb2e, or jb2g).

   The  default  output  format  is PBM (for monochrome images) or PPM for
   non-monochrome. The -png or -tiff options change to default  output  to
   PNG  or  TIFF  respectively. If both -png and -tiff are specified, CMYK
   images will be written as TIFF and all other images will be written  as
   PNG.  In  addition  the  -j,  -jp2, and -jbig2 options will cause JPEG,
   JPEG2000, and JBIG2, respectively, images in the PDF file to be written
   in their native format.

OPTIONS

   -f number
          Specifies the first page to scan.

   -l number
          Specifies the last page to scan.

   -png   Change the default output format to PNG.

   -tiff  Change the default output format to TIFF.

   -j     Write images in JPEG format as JPEG files instead of the default
          format. The JPEG file is identical to the JPEG  data  stored  in
          the PDF.

   -jp2   Write  images  in  JPEG2000  format  as JP2 files instead of the
          default format. The JP2 file is identical to the  JPEG2000  data
          stored in the PDF.

   -jbig2 Write  images  in  JBIG2  format  as  JBIG2 files instead of the
          default format. JBIG2 data in PDF is of the embedded  type.  The
          embedded  type of JBIG2 has an optional separate file containing
          global data. The embedded data is  written  with  the  extension
          .jb2e  and the global data (if available) will be written to the
          same image number with the extension .jb2g. The content of  both
          these files is identical to the JBIG2 data in the PDF.

   -ccitt Write  images  in  CCITT  format  as  CCITT files instead of the
          default format. The CCITT file is identical to  the  CCITT  data
          stored  in  the  PDF.  PDF  files  contain additional parameters
          specifying how to decode the CCITT data.  These  parameters  are
          translated  to  fax2tiff  input options and written to a .params
          file with the same image number. The parameters are:

          -1     1D Group 3 encoding

          -2     2D Group 3 encoding

          -4     Group 4 encoding

          -A     Beginning of line is aligned on a byte boundary

          -P     Beginning of line is not aligned on a byte boundary

          -X n   The image width in pixels

          -W     Encoding uses 1 for black and 0 for white

          -B     Encoding uses 0 for black and 1 for white

          -M     Input data fills  from  most  significant  bit  to  least
                 significant bit.

   -all   Write  JPEG,  JPEG2000,  JBIG2, and CCITT images in their native
          format. CMYK files are written as TIFF files. All  other  images
          are  written as PNG files.  This is equivalent to specifying the
          options -png -tiff -j -jp2 -jbig2 -ccitt.

   -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.

          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)

          x-ppi  The  horizontal  resolution  of  the image (in pixels per
                 inch) when rendered on the pdf page.

          y-ppi  The vertical resolution of the image (in pixels per inch)
                 when rendered on the pdf page.

          size   The  size  of  the  embedded  image  in the pdf file. The
                 following suffixes are used: 'B'  bytes,  'K'  kilobytes,
                 'M' megabytes, and 'G' gigabytes.

          ratio  The compression ratio of the embedded image.

   -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 1998-2011  Glyph
   & Cog, LLC.

SEE ALSO

   pdfdetach(1),  pdffonts(1),  pdfinfo(1),  pdftocairo(1),  pdftohtml(1),
   pdftoppm(1),  pdftops(1),   pdftotext(1)   pdfseparate(1),   pdfsig(1),
   pdfunite(1)

                            15 August 2011                    pdfimages(1)





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