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Extracting Content from PDFs / Exporting Images




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Now before we wrap this Chapter up I'm going to show you one more very cool way for pulling content out of your PDF files. You've seen how to copy content out of your PDF files, you've seen how to save your PDF files in different file formats, what if I wanted to extract all of the images inside this PDF file, every single last one of them? Maybe I want to use the images throughout this document inside another layout, for example. Well, the process is actually very straightforward. Rather than going and selecting each image individually and copying it and pasting it out or something like that, I'm going to get Acrobat to do all of the heavy lifting for me. The command that we're after is actually found underneath the Advanced Menu, so head up to Advanced, down to Document Processing, which sounds a little cryptic, and the command that I'm after is Export All Images. OK, great. Now, I'm inside my Module 8 Folder, which is fantastic. My Format Menu down at the bottom, I can choose JPEG, PNG, TIFF, or JPEG 2000. I'm going to stick with the defaults here: JPEG, that is perfectly fine. I could click on my Settings if I wanted to here and come in here and set some compression levels if I wanted to, some color management options here, and of course, my resolution down at the bottom. Now you know what I'm not going to do this time? Unlike the other video I'm not going to force the resolution because the resolution of my graphics is really determined when the PDF file is actually created. I hope that's not too confusing. It's a little bit different from the last video that you saw because in that video we were converting the entire page. Here we're just after the individual graphics which already have compression settings and resolution set for them. So, normally I leave these options alone in this particular situation. So, I'm going to click on OK here, and then when I'm ready I'm going to click on Save, and let Acrobat go to work here. Alright, let's go and check out our results here. I'll hide Acrobat. There's my Module 8 Folder here. Now, check this out! I have 722 files inside this folder. If memory serves I did have a few other files as well, so I think there's something like 717 graphics, or something like that, that just got exported from my PDF file. That is a whole heck of a lot, and you know, most of them are what I would call junk graphics. If I double-click on one of these guys for example, just like white boxes, or gray lines, you know, this sort of thing. But there is one that I'm going to go and open up. He's all the way down here. Thank goodness Acrobat actually names these guys sequentially so I know which guy I want to go and open up. There's the guy I'm after. He's the 38th graphic, or image number 38 on page 3, that should be the guy that we're after. There he is. That's the guy I wanted. He's our little screen shot of our mad scientist there, and of course if I zoom in he's going to pixelate on us, but he's pixelated anyway so there's not a whole lot I can do about that, but he looks nice if I keep him at 100 percent at least. So, there's a look at exporting content out of your Acrobat files, specifically how to export all of the images out of your Acrobat files, and again, I hope this is something that you can definitely make use of.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Acrobat 9
Author: Geoff Blake
SKU: 33985
ISBN: 1-935320-40-8
Release Date: 2009-04-10
Duration: 7 hrs / 106 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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