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

[rise]

> On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, rise wrote:

> > The xpdf (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/about.html) package contains
> > pdfimages which extracts to PPM, PBM, and JPEG. It has a couple of useful
> > options and a reasonably predictable image naming scheme.
> 
> This was painless and worked like a charm.  You've saved me a fair bit
> of effort.

Score one for SuSE Linux's 'provide scary amounts of software so you never
have to download it approach'. I used 'man -k pdf' to find it.

Of course updating the man/whatis cache on my machine takes a couple of
hours in the background, so YMMV...

Jonathan Conway
Senior DBA
ipoPros.com