On Dec 27, 1:12 am, Carl K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug Farrell wrote: > > Hi all, > > > Does anyone know how to extract images from a PDF file? What I'm looking > > to do is use pdflib_py to open large PDF files on our Linux servers, > > then use PIL to verify image data. I want to do this in order > > to find corrupt images in the PDF files. If anyone could help > > me out, or point me in the right direction, it would be most > > appreciated! > > If you are ok shelling out to a binary: > > pdfimages - Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor (version > 3.00)http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/text/xpdf-utils > > I am trying to convert the pdf to a png, but without having to run external > commands. so I will understand if you arn't happy with pdfimages. > > Carl K
Carl, Thanks for the feedback, and I don't mind shelling out to an external command if it gets the job done. Thanks for the link to xpdf-utils, I'm going to look into it this morning. Doug -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list