[Web4lib] Extracting images from PDF?

[Araby Y Greene]

This has worked for me in the past, at least with individual PDF
documents and Acrobat 6:

Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat
Select Advanced from the top menu bar
Export all images...
  Select your format (jpg, tif, png, jpg 2000)
  Select your settings

Acrobat outputs the images using the basic filename plus page number and
image number.

You could also export single images (from the messed up pages) by using
the Select Image tool, then right click and Save As (.bmp or .jpg), but
you don't have all the nice format options that are available with
"Export all images."
 
-Araby
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Araby Greene 
Web Development Librarian 
Getchell Library/322 
University of Nevada, Reno 
http://www.library.unr.edu/  
araby at unr.edu  
775.784.6500 x343 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-
> bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Robert Sullivan
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:48 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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