Extract Out Images From PDF Files.

So, you have a pdf file & you want to extract out images from it ? Here's the short & cute guide.

1) We need to install poppler-utils first.(In latest version of Ubuntu, it's already installed)
 sudo apt-get install poppler-utils 
2) Now change the directory where your .pdf file is located. Mine is located under /Downloads directory as shown in image below :
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 cd Downloads 
3) Now extract the image from the pdf file :
In my case,
 pdfimages -j practical_arduino.pdf CE 
Press "Enter"

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  1. Here, pdfimages is console application name which is part of poppler-utils.
  2. -j means JPEG will stay JPEG only.
  3. practical_arduino.pdf = name_of_file.pdf
  4. CE = All the extracted images will have CE as prefix.

4) Images will be extracted within few seconds :
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And we get the required extracted images from PDF 👍

Replies

  • Shailaja Tiwari
    Shailaja Tiwari
    Good info .May be somwhere I could use it in my case study .But as an Windows user I xtract images using snipping tool software 😀 .
  • Abhishek Rawal
    Abhishek Rawal
    shailaja revathi
    But as an Windows user I xtract images using snipping tool software 😀 .
    That's time consuming, isn't it ?
    It took around 5 seconds to extract all image from entire 400 page ebook 👍
  • Shailaja Tiwari
    Shailaja Tiwari
    5 seconds to extract all image from entire 400 page ebook
    Against this ratio yes it's time consuming other wise using it's ok -you need only 2 seconds to get one image i.e you have to just run that software and select your image and paste it in paint.
  • Abhishek Rawal
    Abhishek Rawal
    shailaja revathi
    Against this ratio yes it's time consuming other wise using it's ok -you need only 2 seconds to get one image i.e you have to just run that software and select your image and paste it in paint.
    I am not perfectionist, but I like something to be very accurate.
    So, in process of manually snipping image with the application from a file, even if a pixel is missed, it hurts my soul.

    Anyways, as you're planning to do case-study of Linux based OS, I think you should try some Linux distros 😁
  • Shailaja Tiwari
    Shailaja Tiwari
    Sure,Mr.accurationist 😎 and Linux-lover.😁
  • Nana Klinton
    Nana Klinton
    HI there
    Thanks for your nice sharing.I have encountered a problem in C# PDF Text Reader Library: how to get, read, extract text (with line, table) from PDF file using c# .net. Free open source examples files.I tried to do that using this code:
    public String GetText(PDFDocument doc, int pageNum, int index, int count)
    {
    PDFPage page = (PDFPage)doc.GetPage(pageNum);
    return page.GetText(index, count);
    }
    But it can not work.I want to know that if there is any other code which supports to do that.Thanks a lot

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