>>>> "Jim" == Jim Leonard
<trixter at oldskool.org> writes: 
 Jim> der Mouse wrote:
 > Which of those "several open source
packages" includes a
> scriptable (ie, command-line) tool to extract the embedded images
> from a PDF? 
 Jim> If you have a "need" for extracting images from PDF than you are
 Jim> missing the point of PDF.  If you can view it and print it you
 Jim> have no need to extract images from it.
Not true.  I've done an extract and re-insert on several PDF files, to
clean up the scans with a graphics editor.
      paul