Screw Drivers and PDF Files

[der Mouse]

>> Which of those "several open source packages" includes a scriptable
>> (ie, command-line) tool to extract the embedded images from a PDF?
> If you have a "need" for extracting images from PDF than you are
> missing the point of PDF.  If you can view it and print it you have
> no need to extract images from it.

That's a nice-sounding theory, but it is wrong.

You do not know better than I what I have need to do with PDFs.

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