Extract and Image from a PDF

April 14th, 2008 | by Rob |

WHY? Images are embedded in PDF documents but you may just want the image.

This was a little solution I needed to come up with last week for a friend. He had an image inside a PDF file and needed only part of the image to use in a document he was creating.

Since one can not extract an image from a PDF, and he didn’t need a very high quality image, I hit on a solution:

  1. Open the PDF and make sure the view is set to 100% so the image is sized properly
  2. Take a screen shot of the PDF
  3. Open the screen shot image in a photo editor
  4. Crop to suit your needs

Done.

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  1. 4 Comments to “Extract and Image from a PDF”

  2. By Canadian Tech Guy on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply

    This post motivated me to blog about a great free screen capture utility that I have been using for over a year now. In the case you describe above, it accomplishes the same thing but much more quickly. Have a look:

    http://canadiantechguy.blogspot.com/2008/04/awesome-little-screen-capture-utility.html

  3. By Jeff on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply

    You can also open a PDF in Photoshop and crop whatever you want out of the pdf, then save it in whatever format you want.

  4. By Jill on Apr 15, 2008 | Reply

    This is great! I was just wondering about this today! How cool!

  5. By Jayson on May 12, 2008 | Reply

    http://www.rlvision.com/pdfwiz/about.asp

    I found this which seems to do it pretty well…

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