Extract Images From a PDF
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A picture inside a PDF is stored whole, with its own compression untouched, which means it can be taken out rather than photographed. This finds every image in the document, including the ones inside imported fragments that most tools miss, shows you each with the page it came from, and hands them over as files. A JPEG comes out as the same JPEG it went in as, byte for byte, so nothing is lost to a second round of compression. The document stays on your machine throughout.
1 · The document
2 · What is inside it
Each picture with the page it appears on. Untick anything you do not want.
3 · Take them out
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Frequently asked questions
Does the picture lose quality on the way out?
No, and that is the point of doing it this way. A photograph in a PDF is stored as a JPEG already, so the bytes are copied out and saved under a new name. Nothing is decoded and re-encoded, which means no second generation of compression artefacts. A tool that renders the page and crops the picture out of the rendering gives you a copy of a copy, at whatever resolution the rendering happened to be.
Is my document uploaded?
No. Your browser opens the PDF, finds the images and writes the files, all in the tab. The site’s security policy sets connect-src ‘none’, so the browser blocks network requests from these pages, so nothing could be sent even if the code tried. This matters here as much as anywhere on the site: the documents people take pictures out of are contracts with signatures in them and scans of identity papers.
It says some images could not be read. Why?
Because they are stored in a format that needs its own decoder, and we would rather name that than pretend. Scanned pages are usually JBIG2 or CCITT fax, both designed for black-and-white paper, and some archives use JPEG 2000. Writing any of those decoders is a project in itself. The honest answer is a list of what was found and what could not be opened, not a shorter list with the difficult ones quietly missing.
Why does one picture show as being on several pages?
Because it is one picture. A letterhead logo is stored once and drawn on every page, so listing it forty times would be forty copies of the same file. It is listed once, with the pages that use it.
What about transparency?
It is kept. A cut-out logo carries its transparency in a separate greyscale image that says how solid each pixel is, and that is applied before the PNG is written. Ignoring it is what puts the black rectangle back behind every logo, which is the most visible way this kind of tool goes wrong.
Can I get the text out too?
Not here. Text in a PDF is not stored as words but as instructions to draw glyphs at positions, using an encoding the file defines for itself, and reassembling readable Thai from that is a much harder problem than it sounds. Doing it badly produces something that looks like text and is subtly wrong, which is worse than not offering it.