[boulder.pm] extracting images from a PDF file?

[Dan Moore]

I've not tried this, but you may want to look at the Text-PDF module.  In
the readme.txt, it refers to a small example script thusly:

pdfgetobj   Extracts a particular object from a PDF file (debugging aid)

This script has the following help message:
    PDFGETOBJ [-g gen] -n num [-o outfile] pdffile
    Gets the given object from the pdf file and unpacks it to either
    stdout or outfile.

    -g gen      Generation number [0]
    -n num      Object number
    -o outfile  Output file

Hope this helps.
Dan


On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Walter Pienciak wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out a way to extract images from
> PDF files and save them as separate files.
> 
> Has anyone seen anything like this?  Perl or otherwise?
> 
> Any combination of kludges and glue that will let this
> be done programmatically will be gratefully accepted.  =8^0
> 
> Walter
> 
> 

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