pdfimages(1)                                       pdfimages(1)





NAME
       pdfimages - Portable Document Format (PDF) image extrac-
       tor (version 2.03)

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), or JPEG files.

       Pdfimages reads the PDF file, scans one or  more  pages,
       PDF-file, 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 sys-
       tem-wide config  file,  typically  /usr/local/etc/xpdfrc
       (but  this  location  can  be  changed when pdfimages is
       built).  See the xpdfrc(5) man page for details.

OPTIONS
       Many of the following options can be set with configura-
       tion file commands.  These are listed in square brackets
       with the description of the corresponding  command  line
       option.

       -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  restric-
              tions.

       -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:

       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
       1998-2003 Glyph & Cog, LLC.

SEE ALSO
       xpdf(1),  pdftops(1),  pdftotext(1),  pdfinfo(1),   pdf-
       fonts(1), pdftopbm(1), xpdfrc(5)
       http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/



                        10 October 2003            pdfimages(1)
