Linux Ubuntu Redhat How To Extract Images from PDF

Just use pdfimages:

Change yourpdf.pdf to the name of your pdf

output-name is the name format (eg. output-name01.jpg output-name02.jpg) is how the files will be named if you use "output-name". Change as needed.

pdfimages -all yourpdf.pdf output-name

After that you will have extracted all of the images.

You can also just run the command with -list and see all of the images contained within the pdf like this:

pdfimages -list file.pdf

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188 64.6K 0.6% 11 14 image 2543 1553 rgb 3 8 jpeg no 4 0 231 188 64.6K 0.6% 11 15 image 726 429 rgb 3 8 image no 41 0 66 66 13.6K 1.5% 11 16 smask 726 429 gray 1 8 image no 41 0 66 66 343B 0.1% 12 17 image 2543 1553 rgb 3 8 jpeg no 4 0 231 188 64.6K 0.6% 12 18 image 726 429 rgb 3 8 image no 48 0 66 66 12.4K 1.4% 12 19 smask 726 429 gray 1 8 image no 48 0 66 66 343B 0.1% 13 20 image 2543 1553 rgb 3 8 jpeg no 4 0 231 188 64.6K 0.6% 13 21 image 726 429 rgb 3 8 image no 55 0 66 66 10.6K 1.2% 13 22 smask 726 429 gray 1 8 image no 55 0 66 66 343B 0.1% 14 23 image 2543 1553 rgb 3 8 jpeg no 4 0 231 188 64.6K 0.6% 14 24 image 726 429 rgb 3 8 image no 62 0 66 66 13.1K 1.4% 14 25 smask 726 429 gray 1 8 image no 62 0 66 66 343B 0.1% 15 26 image 2543 1553 rgb 3 8 jpeg no 4 0 231 188 64.6K 0.6% 15 27 image 726 429 rgb 3 8 image no 69 0 66 66 11.9K 1.3% 15 28 smask 726 429 gray 1 8 image no 69 0 66 66 343B 0.1% 16 29 image 2543 1553 rgb 3 8 jpeg no 4 0 231 188 64.6K 0.6% 16 30 image 726 429 rgb 3 8 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