Introduction

pdf-images-extractor is a very easy to use images extractor for PDF files.

It extracts all images from one or several PDF files and saves them as separate image files.

Example

In the following example we will extract images from two PDF files test1.pdf and test2.pdf:

berthier@cogip:~$ ./pdfimex.py ~/Downloads/test1.pdf ~/Downloads/test2.pdf

The folder test1-images which contains all extracted images from test1.pdf has been created in the same folder as test1.pdf:

berthier@cogip:~$ ll ~/Downloads/test1-images/
total 272
drwxrwxr-x 2 berthier berthier   4096 déc.  21 23:30 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 berthier berthier   4096 déc.  21 23:30 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 berthier berthier 163255 déc.  21 23:30 image_1.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 berthier berthier 105597 déc.  21 23:30 image_2.jpg

Same goes for test2.pdf:

berthier@cogip:~$ ll ~/Downloads/test2-images/
total 272
drwxrwxr-x 2 berthier berthier   4096 déc.  21 23:30 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 berthier berthier   4096 déc.  21 23:30 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 berthier berthier 163255 déc.  21 23:30 image_1.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 berthier berthier 105597 déc.  21 23:30 image_2.jpg

Dependencies

The following dependencies must be satisfied:

pip install Pillow
pip install PyPDF2