pdfimages Command Examples

Utility for extracting images from PDFs. More information: https://manned.org/pdfimages.

• Extract all images from a PDF file and save them as PNGs:

pdfimages -png {{path/to/file.pdf}} {{filename_prefix}}

• Extract images from pages 3 to 5:

pdfimages -f {{3}} -l {{5}} {{path/to/file.pdf}} {{filename_prefix}}

• Extract images from a PDF file and include the page number in the output filenames:

pdfimages -p {{path/to/file.pdf}} {{filename_prefix}}

• List information about all the images in a PDF file:

pdfimages -list {{path/to/file.pdf}}