aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc/pdfimages.1
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorCalvin Morrison <calvin@pobox.com>2023-04-05 14:13:39 -0400
committerCalvin Morrison <calvin@pobox.com>2023-04-05 14:13:39 -0400
commit835e373b3eeaabcd0621ed6798ab500f37982fae (patch)
treedfa16b0e2e1b4956b38f693220eac4e607802133 /doc/pdfimages.1
xpdf-no-select-disableHEADmaster
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/pdfimages.1')
-rw-r--r--doc/pdfimages.1122
1 files changed, 122 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pdfimages.1 b/doc/pdfimages.1
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..06a9c1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/pdfimages.1
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+.\" Copyright 1998-2022 Glyph & Cog, LLC
+.TH pdfimages 1 "18 Apr 2022"
+.SH NAME
+pdfimages \- Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor
+(version 4.04)
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B pdfimages
+[options]
+.I PDF-file image-root
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B Pdfimages
+saves images from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file as Portable
+Pixmap (PPM), Portable Graymap (PGM), Portable Bitmap (PBM), or JPEG
+files.
+.PP
+Pdfimages reads the PDF file, scans one or more pages,
+.IR PDF-file ,
+and writes one PPM, PGM, PBM, or JPEG file for each image,
+.IR image-root - nnnn . xxx ,
+where
+.I nnnn
+is the image number and
+.I xxx
+is the image type (.ppm, .pgm, .pbm, .jpg).
+.PP
+NB: pdfimages extracts the raw image data from the PDF file, without
+performing any additional transforms. Any rotation, clipping,
+color inversion, etc. done by the PDF content stream is ignored.
+.SH CONFIGURATION FILE
+Pdfimages reads a configuration file at startup. It first tries to
+find the user's private config file, ~/.xpdfrc. If that doesn't
+exist, it looks for a system-wide config file, typically /etc/xpdfrc
+(but this location can be changed when pdfimages is built). See the
+.BR xpdfrc (5)
+man page for details.
+.SH OPTIONS
+Many of the following options can be set with configuration file
+commands. These are listed in square brackets with the description of
+the corresponding command line option.
+.TP
+.BI \-f " number"
+Specifies the first page to scan.
+.TP
+.BI \-l " number"
+Specifies the last page to scan.
+.TP
+.B \-j
+Normally, all images are written as PBM (for monochrome images), PGM
+(for grayscale images), or PPM (for color images) files. With this
+option, images in DCT format are saved as JPEG files. All non-DCT
+images are saved in PBM/PGM/PPM format as usual. (Inline images are
+always saved in PBM/PGM/PPM format.)
+.TP
+.B \-raw
+Write all images in PDF-native formats. Most of the formats are not
+standard image formats, so this option is primarily useful as input to
+a tool that generates PDF files. (Inline images are always saved in
+PBM/PGM/PPM format.)
+.TP
+.B \-list
+Write a one-line summary to stdout for each image. The summary
+provides the image file name, the page number, the image width and
+height, the horizontal and vertical resolution (DPI) as drawn, the
+color space type, and the number of bits per component (BPC).
+.TP
+.BI \-opw " password"
+Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this will
+bypass all security restrictions.
+.TP
+.BI \-upw " password"
+Specify the user password for the PDF file.
+.TP
+.B \-verbose
+Print a status message (to stdout) before processing each page.
+.RB "[config file: " printStatusInfo ]
+.TP
+.B \-q
+Don't print any messages or errors.
+.RB "[config file: " errQuiet ]
+.TP
+.B \-v
+Print copyright and version information.
+.TP
+.B \-h
+Print usage information.
+.RB ( \-help
+and
+.B \-\-help
+are equivalent.)
+.SH EXIT CODES
+The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
+.TP
+0
+No error.
+.TP
+1
+Error opening a PDF file.
+.TP
+2
+Error opening an output file.
+.TP
+3
+Error related to PDF permissions.
+.TP
+99
+Other error.
+.SH AUTHOR
+The pdfimages software and documentation are copyright 1998-2022 Glyph
+& Cog, LLC.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR xpdf (1),
+.BR pdftops (1),
+.BR pdftotext (1),
+.BR pdftohtml (1),
+.BR pdfinfo (1),
+.BR pdffonts (1),
+.BR pdfdetach (1),
+.BR pdftoppm (1),
+.BR pdftopng (1),
+.BR xpdfrc (5)
+.br
+.B http://www.xpdfreader.com/