Extract Images

Examples

Extract all images of book.pdf into the current directory:

NOTE: Meanwhile there is also the more intuitive command:
pdfcpu images extract

$ pdfcpu extract -mode image book.pdf .
extracting images from book.pdf into . ...

$ ls
-rwxr-xr-x   1 horstrutter  staff    28K Mar  8 11:57 Im0_16_165.jpg*
-rw-r--r--   1 horstrutter  staff   600B Mar  8 11:57 Im1_3_36.png
-rw-r--r--   1 horstrutter  staff    93B Mar  8 12:06 Im91_22_601.png
-rw-r--r--   1 horstrutter  staff    89B Mar  8 12:06 Im181_22_716.png
-rw-r--r--   1 horstrutter  staff    93B Mar  8 12:06 Im37_22_782.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 horstrutter  staff    89B Mar  8 12:06 Im29_22_761.png
-rw-r--r--   1 horstrutter  staff    76B Mar  8 12:06 Im124_22_539.png
-rw-r--r--   1 horstrutter  staff    16K Mar  8 12:06 Im2_22_429.jpg
-rw-r-----@  1 horstrutter  staff   537K Jun  9  2017 book.pdf

Extract all images of the first 5 pages of folder.pdf into out:

$ pdfcpu extract -mode image -pages -5 folder.pdf out
pageSelection: -5
extracting images from folder.pdf into out ...

 $ ls out
-rwxr-xr-x   1 horstrutter  staff    26K Mar  8 12:10 Im0_1_2880.jpg*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 horstrutter  staff    10K Mar  8 12:10 Im0_2_7.jpg*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 horstrutter  staff   9.9K Mar  8 12:10 Im0_3_20.jpg*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 horstrutter  staff   5.1K Mar  8 12:10 Im0_4_33.jpg*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 horstrutter  staff   7.7K Mar  8 12:10 Im0_5_48.jpg*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 horstrutter  staff    11K Mar  8 12:10 Im1_2_8.jpg*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 horstrutter  staff   4.9K Mar  8 12:10 Im1_3_21.jpg*