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Extracting embedded jpg files from Acrobat .pdf files
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A friend showed me a nifty freeware utility available for Windows called 'PDF Explorer', that allows one to extract embedded jpg files from Adobe Acrobat files. This is useful (for me) for grabbing images from scientific articles and dropping them into lectures.
Does anyone know of a similar program/utility for the Mac (especially OS X)?
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by jdbrandt:
<strong>A friend showed me a nifty freeware utility available for Windows called 'PDF Explorer', that allows one to extract embedded jpg files from Adobe Acrobat files. This is useful (for me) for grabbing images from scientific articles and dropping them into lectures.
Does anyone know of a similar program/utility for the Mac (especially OS X)?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Just about any Adobe program will let you import PDF's (depending on security options set within the PDF) and then there is always the old screen grab trick.
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Shift Comand four my friend, shift command four 
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Open the PDF with Photoshop. First it asks which page, then you have to set the rasterizing options and then it opens the PDF. Then crop the image and there you have it.
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by zilmer:
<strong>Open the PDF with Photoshop. First it asks which page, then you have to set the rasterizing options and then it opens the PDF. Then crop the image and there you have it. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Actually, I'm well aware of screen shots and the tricks you describe; what was particularly useful to me about the PDF Explorer program was that you could open a pdf file with it and it would extract the jpg files that are apparently embedded within it and save them as separate files. I often deal with 30+ page PDFs with dozens of embedded images; having a utility parse out the jpgs would be very useful instead of having to laboriously screen shoot each of them.
<small>[ 06-14-2002, 09:28 AM: Message edited by: jdbrandt ]</small>
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Check out the products by <a href="http://www.quite.com/" target="_blank">http://www.quite.com/</a>
One of their utilities is bound to have that feature. I don't know if it will 'bulk extract' the graphics though.
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Adobe Acrobat (not Reader) can export inline images as .jpg's if you want. It will extract them all at once. The limitation is that it won't extract path-art (line art, etc), the images have to be embedded as bitmap (jpeg, tiff, etc) at some part of the process
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