1 .\" Copyright 1998-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC
2 .TH pdfimages 1 "22 January 2004"
4 pdfimages \- Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor
12 saves images from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file as Portable
13 Pixmap (PPM), Portable Bitmap (PBM), or JPEG files.
15 Pdfimages reads the PDF file
17 scans one or more pages, and writes one PPM, PBM, or JPEG file for each image,
18 .IR image-root - nnn . xxx ,
21 is the image number and
23 is the image type (.ppm, .pbm, .jpg).
24 .SH CONFIGURATION FILE
25 Pdfimages reads a configuration file at startup. It first tries to
26 find the user's private config file, ~/.xpdfrc. If that doesn't
27 exist, it looks for a system-wide config file, /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc. See the
31 Many of the following options can be set with configuration file
32 commands. These are listed in square brackets with the description of
33 the corresponding command line option.
36 Specifies the first page to scan.
39 Specifies the last page to scan.
42 Normally, all images are written as PBM (for monochrome images) or PPM
43 (for non-monochrome images) files. With this option, images in DCT
44 format are saved as JPEG files. All non-DCT images are saved in
45 PBM/PPM format as usual.
48 Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this will
49 bypass all security restrictions.
52 Specify the user password for the PDF file.
55 Don't print any messages or errors.
56 .RB "[config file: " errQuiet ]
59 Print copyright and version information.
62 Print usage information.
68 The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
74 Error opening a PDF file.
77 Error opening an output file.
80 Error related to PDF permissions.
85 The pdfimages software and documentation are copyright 1998-2004 Glyph
96 .B http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/