[Web4lib] Extracting images from PDF?

[David King]

When I need to do that, I usually just get a screen shot of the image in
question and edit from there.

David King
Kansas City Public Library
816-701-3400, ext. 2503
davidking at kclibrary.org

 

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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Robert Sullivan
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 2:48 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org; genealib at lists.acomp.usf.edu
Subject: [Web4lib] Extracting images from PDF?

A local labor organization had some old newsletters scanned and
presented us with 4 CDs of PDFs, with each issue a separate file.

This would be great, except that they were scanned from a bound volume
2 pages at a time, so any given file will contain the last page of the
previous issue and be missing the last page of the issue named.  This
portends some amount of patron confusion.

I'm considering trying to take these images apart and reassemble them in
a more useful way.  We have Acrobat 7, but our graphics staff uses it at
a fairly low level so they can't help me.  I have found references to
software which will let you save images form PDFs as TIFFs, but I was
hoping for some real world experience.

Thanks for any advice on the least painful way to handle this,

--
Bob Sullivan
Schenectady Digital History Archive
<http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>
Schenectady County (NY) Public Library
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