Screw Drivers and PDF Files

[Pete Turnbull]

On Jun 3 2005, 14:28, 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?
> > 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.

And incomplete.  What about a PDF that I need to use some distance from
my computer, but is not printable?  What about the case where a PDF
contains more than one document that you want to store and index
separately?  What about a badly-scanned document that needs some
fixing?

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

Agreed :-)

It's all very easy to say it should have been created properly in the
first place.  Life's not like that; things are not perfect.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York