IT Help - How to save photos from a PDF Document
IT Help - How to save photos from a PDF Document
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Marcellus

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7,193 posts

242 months

Monday 24th August 2009
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Really need some help, someone has sent me photos in a PDF document and I need to separate these out into individual photos in JPG format.

I've got all of the usual programmes plus "PDF Suite" and "Adobe 8".

Thanks in advance.

Edited by Marcellus on Monday 24th August 08:43

illmonkey

19,619 posts

221 months

Monday 24th August 2009
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You could do a screen grab and paste it into any image software. Not the best, but a quick solution.

john_p

7,073 posts

273 months

Monday 24th August 2009
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Do you have Photoshop? That will open PDFs

Marcellus

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242 months

Monday 24th August 2009
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I don't think the screen grab would work as I need to then upload the photo onto a website for business purposes.

illmonkey

19,619 posts

221 months

Monday 24th August 2009
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Marcellus said:
I don't think the screen grab would work as I need to then upload the photo onto a website for business purposes.
A screen grab wont lose quality, just save it in a good format (PNG). The PDF wont have a higher quality picture inside, it'll be the same image as the presented one...

Famous Graham

26,553 posts

248 months

Monday 24th August 2009
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It will, as you can save it as jpg once you paste it into Photoshop, PSP, even Microsoft Paint, but it'll be fiddly and the quality won't be brilliant.

Your quickest and simplest solution is to phone the sender and get them to resend as jpgs.

illmonkey - if it's a 3000x2000 300 dpi jpg embedded in a PDF, then that will NOT be the result of a screengrab. It'll be whatever the size is in the PDF (probably less than 500px), and 72 dpi.


Edited by Famous Graham on Monday 24th August 08:52

illmonkey

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Monday 24th August 2009
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Famous Graham said:
It will, as you can save it as jpg once you paste it into Photoshop, PSP, even Microsoft Paint, but it'll be fiddly and the quality won't be brilliant.

Your quickest and simplest solution is to phone the sender and get them to resend as jpgs.

illmonkey - if it's a 3000x2000 300 dpi jpg embedded in a PDF, then that will NOT be the result of a screengrab. It'll be whatever the size is in the PDF (probably less than 500px), and 72 dpi.


Edited by Famous Graham on Monday 24th August 08:52
I was assuming (as he said photos) they'd be just standard images at 72dpi and a lower res.

Famous Graham

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248 months

Monday 24th August 2009
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illmonkey said:
Famous Graham said:
It will, as you can save it as jpg once you paste it into Photoshop, PSP, even Microsoft Paint, but it'll be fiddly and the quality won't be brilliant.

Your quickest and simplest solution is to phone the sender and get them to resend as jpgs.

illmonkey - if it's a 3000x2000 300 dpi jpg embedded in a PDF, then that will NOT be the result of a screengrab. It'll be whatever the size is in the PDF (probably less than 500px), and 72 dpi.


Edited by Famous Graham on Monday 24th August 08:52
I was assuming (as he said photos) they'd be just standard images at 72dpi and a lower res.
They could be, but I can tell you that anyone who asks me for photos gets the full size, 300 dpi version biggrin Mind you, having said that, I don't send them in a PDF in the first place...

BoRED S2upid

20,982 posts

263 months

Monday 24th August 2009
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Easiest option to get intouch with the person who put them in the PDF and tell them to send them to you in a different format.

NDA

24,894 posts

248 months

Monday 24th August 2009
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Won't the graphics select tool allow you to select and copy (control + c) and then paste somewhere to save as a pic?


Marcellus

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Monday 24th August 2009
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OK I know the apparent easiest option would be to get hold of the sender.. just that there's a langueage issue to content with (I've tried 3 times and they've sent me the same details everytime)!!

Also there are 6 images on the page which I need to upload each separately so have tried the screen grab approach (assuming it's <Function><prtscrn> and it's not worked)

Famous Graham

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248 months

Monday 24th August 2009
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Marcellus said:
Also there are 6 images on the page which I need to upload each separately so have tried the screen grab approach (assuming it's <Function><prtscrn> and it's not worked)
No, it's just PrintScreen to get the whole desktop, Alt-Printscreen to capture the active window.

eps

6,891 posts

292 months

Monday 24th August 2009
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Another alternative is to use a "JPG printer driver" and convert it to JPG.. Not sure about the quality tho. Best to try all available options and get the res. as high as possible, upload and see which ones look the best.

ETA : or just Google PDF to jpg

Edited by eps on Monday 24th August 09:45

buggalugs

9,269 posts

260 months

Monday 24th August 2009
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The latest OpenOffice has an add-on available to open pdf's for editing...

davidjpowell

18,613 posts

207 months

Monday 24th August 2009
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If you use Vista you should have Snipping Tool in Accessories. This will grab a part of the screen that you set, and you can save it into jpeg. One of the better bits of Vista that is easy to overlook.

bridgdav

4,805 posts

271 months

Monday 24th August 2009
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davidjpowell said:
If you use Vista you should have Snipping Tool in Accessories. This will grab a part of the screen that you set, and you can save it into jpeg. One of the better bits of Vista that is easy to overlook.
Thank you.. I never noticed that..!

Ian_H

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267 months

Monday 24th August 2009
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In the full version of Adobe Acrobat there is an option to extract all images from a pdf file, it's under advanced>Document Processing