[Web4lib] Extracting images from PDF?

[Binkley, Peter]

I've used pdfimage.exe, part of the open-source xpdf package, available
here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/xpdf.htm. It gives you
the images in pbm format, which you can batch-convert to tiff or
whatever using a standard graphic tool such as IrfanView. I used it on
pdfs containing just black-and-white images. It did the job.

Peter

Peter Binkley
Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian
Information Technology Services
4-30 Cameron Library
University of Alberta Libraries
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2J8
Phone: (780) 492-3743
Fax: (780) 492-9243
e-mail: peter.binkley at ualberta.ca



> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Robert Sullivan
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 01:48 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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