Screw Drivers and PDF Files

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> writes:

 Jim> der Mouse wrote:
 >> Which of those "several open source packages" includes a
 >> scriptable (ie, command-line) tool to extract the embedded images
 >> from a PDF?

 Jim> If you have a "need" for extracting images from PDF than you are
 Jim> missing the point of PDF.  If you can view it and print it you
 Jim> have no need to extract images from it. 

Not true.  I've done an extract and re-insert on several PDF files, to
clean up the scans with a graphics editor.

      paul