Extract Images from PDF
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About Extract Images from PDF
A photo in a PDF is not baked into the page. It is stored as a separate image object, and the page simply says “draw that object here, at this size”. That is why pulling the original out of the file is almost always sharper than a screenshot: a picture printed 3 cm wide on the page can easily be a 4,000-pixel image.
This tool walks the resources of every page and lists each image object once. A logo repeated on 20 pages appears as a single card marked “pages 1–20”.
What “keep original” actually means
How an image can be taken out depends on the compression filter it was stored with. With the output format left on “keep original”, you get:
- JPEG (DCTDecode) with no transparency mask: the exact bytes from the file, saved as .jpg. Nothing is recompressed, so there is no quality loss at all.
- JPEG with a soft mask (SMask): decoded in the browser so the transparency can be combined, then saved as PNG.
- JPEG 2000 (JPXDecode): if the browser cannot get pixels, the original bytes are saved as .jp2 — a format many default photo viewers will not open.
- Flate, CCITT fax and JBIG2 (lossless and black-and-white scan compression): decoded through PDF.js and saved as PNG. Anything that fails to decode is flagged on its card and left out.
Pictures that will not show up
Charts, diagrams and logos drawn with lines and shapes are vector graphics, not image objects, so they are not listed; for those, convert the page to an image instead. Turning off “skip masks” can flood the list with 1-bit stencil masks, which usually paint shapes or glyphs rather than photos.
Print-oriented PDFs often hold CMYK JPEGs. Because those are saved byte-for-byte, some image viewers and web browsers show them with odd or inverted colours. Converting to PNG or JPEG in the output options gives you an RGB file instead.
Worked examples
Checking a report photo's real resolution
- Input
Card shows a 2400×1600 JPEG; on the page it is 100 mm wide- Output
About 610 dpi at print size; “keep original” gives you the 2400×1600 .jpg unchanged
100 mm is 3.94 in, and 2400 ÷ 3.94 ≈ 610. A screenshot captures only as many pixels as your monitor shows; extraction gets the whole original. If instead the card says 300×200, the picture was stretched on the page and extracting it will not make it any sharper.
How to use it
- Choose the PDF and review the image cards (pixel size, format, pages used).
- Use the minimum size and skip-masks filters to drop icons, and tick the cards you want.
- Pick an output format, extract, and download images one by one or as a ZIP.
Frequently asked questions
Can I get just the page images out of a scanned PDF?
Yes. A scanned PDF is usually one large image per page, so you get each page at its scan resolution. Any OCR text layer is not included.
Will saving a JPEG as PNG make it sharper?
No. It stores already-compressed pixels losslessly and only makes the file bigger. PNG is worth it only when you need to keep transparency.
Does the photo's EXIF data come out too?
For JPEGs saved byte-for-byte, any EXIF that was left in when the PDF was made comes out with them. Images decoded and re-saved as PNG have none.
What about a document with hundreds of images?
Each card builds a thumbnail, so memory use adds up. Raising the minimum size to 100–200 pixels first filters out icons and decorative fragments, keeps the list responsive, and leaves the photos you actually want.
Some cards list only one page or look different from the rest.
Pictures found only while rendering — for example inline images written directly into the page content rather than stored as named objects — are shown from the pixels PDF.js decoded. There are no original bytes to copy, so they are saved as PNG or JPEG.
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