Extracting images from a PDF

To extract images from a pdf document we can use the command

pdfimages

The syntax to use the command is pdfimages -f "first page number" -l "last page number" "file name" "path for images with name"

pdfimages -f 1 -l 4 test.pdf images

The above command will extract the images from page number 1 to page number 4 and the name of the images will be image-000.ppm ,image-001.ppm etc. The default format is ppm if the format of the file is to be changed, png option can be passed.

pdfimages -f 1 -l 4 -png test.pdf images

The above command will extract the images in the png format.