everyday multimedia not supported...

[Henk Postma]

On Apr 7, 2005 7:39 AM, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > I don't know if this is the point that was being made, but to my
> > opinion xpdf (or gpdf) lack one very important feature: the ability to
> > select and extract text or images from a pdf file.
> 
> Definitely ! If only gpdf could implement Acrobat's selection tools to
> copy text or graphics, I would gladly give up Acrobat, too big and
> ugly :-/

Have you looked at pdfimages? No gui tool, but it works quite nicely
to extract images (jpg, ppm) from pdf files.

# pdfimages <pdffile> <image-root>

Then pick the one you want with your favorite image browser.

- Henk

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