PDF::GetImages - get images from pdf document

	use PDF::GetImages 'pdfimages';

   my $images = pdfimages('/abs/path/tofile.pdf');

Get images out of a pdf document. This code makes use of pdfimages which is part of xpdf. In case CAM::PDF scripts don't work for you, you may want to try using this to extract images from PDF documents. See DEPENDENCIES AND REQUIREMENTS

Argument is abs path to pdf file on disk. Optional argument, is path to a dir to which to send images extracted. Returns array ref with abs paths to images extracted.

By default, images are extracted to same dir pdf file is in.

If this is not a file on disk, or is not a pdf, warns and returns undef.

If no images are extracted, returns empty array ref.

   my $path = '/home/myself/file.pdf';

   my $abs_images = pdfimages($path) 
      or die($PDF::GetImages::errstr);

   scalar @$abs_images 
      or die("no images in $path");

   for (@$abs_images){
      print "$_\n";
   }

To turn on debug messages:

   $PDF::GetImages::DEBUG = 1;

By default pdfimages will spit out pbm or ppm image format files which are huge and unruly. If you want to make sure the images output are jpg..

   $PDF::GetImages::FORCE_JPG= 1 ;

You must have imagemagick convert installed for this to work.

This module requires Unix family operating system to be installed. You must have 'xpdf' package and 'ImageMagick' convert installed. The package checks for paths to these binaries at compile time, not execution time.

Presently we are using cli 'pdfgetimages'. You must have xpdf installed on your system.

Leo Charre leocharre at cpan dot org

Copyright (c) 2008 Leo Charre. All rights reserved.

This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, i.e., under the terms of the "Artistic License" or the "GNU General Public License".

This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See the "GNU General Public License" for more details.

http://www.imagemagick.org/, xpdf, CAM::PDF

Leo Charre leocharre at cpan dot org

This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, i.e., under the terms of the "Artistic License" or the "GNU General Public License".

This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See the "GNU General Public License" for more details.