====== 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]]