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Article #169Re: Extract all images from pdf files?
From: Leonard_Rosenthol
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:43
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:43
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Extracting raster images from a PDF is well defined - though you will have to deal with various issues concerning colorspace and format issues. You can do this using the Adobe Acrobat SDK, for example. PDF doesn't have the concept of a "vector image" - instead, it is simply a collection of vector drawing operations - so you won't find any to extract. Instead, you will need to give some thought on how to handle such things. You should give the PDF Reference/ISO 32000-1 a good read to better understand what you are dealing with...
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