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 +====== General Tips & Tricks ======
 +===== Extract All Images from a pdf =====
 +Install [[http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html|Xpdf]] for your system. For windows, you can find a the download here ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-3.02pl4-win32.zip 
  
 +Copy the files to a directory of your choice and add the commands to your PATH.
 +
 +Open the command line and enter 
 +  pdfimages input.pdf output
 +
 +This will extract ALL images from input.pdf and save them in as PPM files output-001.ppm, outpu-002.ppm, etc. PPM is a highly inefficient format, see [[wp>Netpbm_format|this wikipedia entry]]), so if you want to have nice files, you can use either
 +  pdfimage -j input.pdf output
 +and get JPEG images, or use ImageMagick and convert the PPM images to PNG with
 +  mogrify -format png output*
 +
 +You can guess for yourself what the command
 +  pdftotext input.pdf output.txt
 +does...
 +
 +adapted from [[http://stefaanlippens.net/extract-images-from-pdf-documents|Stefaan Lippens]]