Screw Drivers and PDF Files - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Jun 2005

On Jun 3 2005, 14:28, 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?  If you have a "need" for extracting images from PDF than you
are
 missing the point of PDF.  If you can view it and print it you have
 no need to extract images from it. 
 That's a nice-sounding theory, but it is wrong. 
And incomplete.  What about a PDF that I need to use some distance from
my computer, but is not printable?  What about the case where a PDF
contains more than one document that you want to store and index
separately?  What about a badly-scanned document that needs some
fixing?

...
  You do not know better than I what I have need to do
with PDFs. 
Agreed :-)

It's all very easy to say it should have been created properly in the
first place.  Life's not like that; things are not perfect.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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						University of York