Better indexing on bitsavers

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Fri, 2005-05-20 13:37:54 +0000, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 14:05 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-05-20 11:36:24 +0000, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > 	- A tarball containing all the TIFF (or whatever) images as well
> > > > 	  as some (generated) 
> > > 
> > > See my other post; that's my preference and what I tend to do with all
> > > image-based PDF content I download from anywhere anyway...
> > 
> > For the records (and my education), how do you extract these?
> 
> I've always used Imagemagick's 'convert' util to do it - 
> 
> 'convert foo.pdf foo.tif'  will produce a multi-page TIFF image
> corresponding to the input pdf file.
> 
> 'convert foo.pdf foo%02d.tif' will give you seperate TIFF images for
> each page (which is the more useful flavour)

Will these extract the _original_ TIFF files (eg. with embedded comments
etc.) or would it only produce images looking like the original ones?

Oh, TIFF, *Tagged* image file format. TIFF could even be used to hole
metadata :)

MfG, JBG

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