On Dec 27, 10:13 am, writeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 27, 1:12 am, Carl K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Doug Farrell wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Does anyone know how to extract images from aPDFfile? What I'm looking > > > to do is use pdflib_py to open largePDFfiles on our Linux servers, > > > then use PIL to verify image data. I want to do this in order > > > to find corrupt images in thePDFfiles. If anyone could help > > > me out, or point me in the right direction, it would be most > > > appreciated! > > > If you are ok shelling out to a binary: > > > pdfimages - Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor (version > > 3.00)http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/text/xpdf-utils > > > I am trying to convert thepdfto a png, but without having to run external > > commands. so I will understand if you arn't happy with pdfimages. > > > Carl K > > Carl, > > Thanks for the feedback, and I don't mind shelling out to an external > command if it gets the job done. Thanks for the link to xpdf-utils, > I'm going to look into it this morning. > > Doug
Hi, Our linux servers run CentOS (4.X) I believe, and the repositories for this version doesn't have xpdf-utils available. I'm going to look into editing the sources.list file in order to get yum to install the necessary dependencies for me as xpdf-utils looks very useful! Doug -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
