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extracting images from pdf files
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Sometimes you want to extract the images in a pdf like separate images.
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This will save all the images in a pdf in seperate .png files with the page in which they were found encoded in the title
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for f in *.pdf; do pdfimages $f ${f%.*} -p -png; done
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- for every file (f) in the folder
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- with a .pdf extension
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- use the pdfimages, which is an open-source command-line utility for extracting images
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- to every file ($f) and name the image the same way as the file but without the pdf extension (${f%.*})
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-p -png; donealso add the page where the image was found (-p) and save the file as a png (-png)
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