Extract Images

This command lets you extract individual images contained by pages.

Have a look at some examples.

Usage

pdfcpu images extract [-p(ages) selectedPages] -- inFile outDir

Flags

name	description	required
p(ages)	page selection	no

Common Flags

name	description	values
v(erbose)	turn on logging
vv	verbose logging
q(uiet)	quiet mode
-o(ffline)	disable http traffic
c(onf)	config dir	$path, disable
opw	owner password
upw	user password
u(nit)	display unit	po(ints),in(ches),cm,mm

Arguments

name	description	required
inFile	PDF input file	yes
outDir	output directory	yes

Examples

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

$ pdfcpu images extract 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 images extract -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*