Extracting images from a pdf file

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December 2, 2017
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I have a multi-page pdf file containing two images on each each page. I would like to extract each image into a separate file (preferably but not necessarily in jpeg format). This is a one-off task so I am looking for a simple straight-forward method using free software. Is this possible? If so how can this be achieved please?

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Correct answer try67

This can be done using Acrobat Pro. There's a free trial version of this application that you can use for 7 days.

jane-e

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In Acrobat Pro:

Convert or export PDFs to other file formats, Adobe Acrobat ,

then scroll down to "Export images in a PDF to another format"

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Anonymous

Thank you. That was one of the 3 ways which I tried while liberating the images from the PDF, as noted above. Anyway, the more help, the merrier.

try67

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This can be done using Acrobat Pro. There's a free trial version of this application that you can use for 7 days.

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Anonymous

The term “extract” in this case seems to be a misnomer.

In other words, it may be named incorrectly.

I think many users will find that, upon extracting images from a PDF, the images are not the same as the original images which went into the PDF. This has been the case with all my testing in Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional where there are 3 different ways to get images out of the PDF, before we even factor-in the various options for file type, but none of these methods produces an image which looks as good as the original.

I have the originals sitting in a web page resources folder for comparison. There is loss of image quality no matter how I “extract”. Therefore, I think a better name for it might be “translate” or “recreate”.

However, I am very interested in being proven wrong here, so please do educate me. If there's a way to really “extract” the original images, I want to know.

try67

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Oh, sorry, I just remembered that I didn't test it with JPEG2000. That was the only one I avoided.

I know you don't like to hear it, but it's impossible to discuss issues that you're having with Acrobat 7. If you could share a sample file with us we could test it in a more current version of Acrobat and see what the results are. If they are the same then we could discuss it. If the issue was fixed since your version then the problem is yours to deal with...

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