I and others are interested in extracting Vector graphics from PDF, perhaps into SVG. I hacked at this about 4 years ago with moderate progress and now need to revisit. I noticed a discussion http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/pdfbox-users/200902.mbox/%3CCOL119-W63EED17C9749CDA011AEFEF1C20%40phx.gbl%3E in 2009-02-03 which is roughly consistent with my understanding - you have to hack into the stream somewhere.
I am wondering whether there has been any progress over the last 3 years? (FWIW I like the PDFDebugger can use this to navigate to the appropriate parts of the Stream). Also are there others in the PDF-hacking community who also want to extract graphics? My own interest is scientific and technical graphs, tables, diagrams, etc. -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
