If you only want to convert images on and after a certain page, use the “-f” option with a number to indicate the first page to convert, as shown in the example command below. The main image file for each image is saved as a. NOTE: You can also change the default output to PNG using the “-png” option or TIFF using the “-tiff” option.

Pdfimages -j /home/lori/Documents/SampleWithImages.pdf /home/lori/Documents/ExtractedImages/image jpg image files, add the “-j” option to the command, as shown below. The second image for each image is blank, so, you’ll be able to tell which images contain the images from the file by the thumbnail on the file in the File Manager. NOTE: You may get two image files for each image in your PDF file. These formats are designed to be easily exchanged between platforms. The default image format is PPM (portable pixmap) for non-monochrome images, or PBM (portable bitmap) for monochrome images. A dash is added between the text you specify and the number. In our example, each image filename will start with “image”, such as image-001.ppm, image-002.ppm, etc. If you want to add text to the beginning of each image, enter that text at the end of the second path. The filenames of the images are numbered automatically (000, 001, 002, 003, etc.). The word “image” at the end of the second path represents whatever you want to preface your filename with.

The second path should be the path to the root folder into which you want to save the extracted images. NOTE: For all the commands shown in this article, replace the first path in the command and the PDF filename to the path and filename for your original PDF file. Pdfimages /home/lori/Documents/SampleWithImages.pdf /home/lori/Documents/ExtractedImages/image Type the following command at the prompt. To extract images from a PDF file using pdfimages, press “Ctrl + Alt + T” to open a Terminal window. You can check to see if it’s installed on your system and install it if necessary using the steps described in this article. The “pdfimages” tool is part of the poppler-utils package.

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