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Some PDF Image Extract

CNET Editors' review

by: CNET staff on October 15, 2009

People who use a lot of files in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) but can't afford one of Adobe's high-end products often end up buying third-party utilities designed to make creating and managing PDFs easier, which they do, but since many cost $50 or more, it quickly becomes an expensive proposition. Fortunately, software maker Some PDF has several high-quality PDF utilities that have the added advantage of being totally free. One of them is PDF Image Extract, which extracts images from PDF files without having to cut and paste and saves files in a wide range of formats, including JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, and PNG.

Image Extract downloads, installs, and opens quickly and gets right down to business. A simple, well-thought-out interface makes it easy to load your PDFs, select your output options (such as image quality, gray scale levels, and other settings), and perform the extraction. You can import single files or whole directories. Tabs on the main window's toolbar let you enter the owner's and user's passwords.

The program works well, which is just as well, since the help and documentation features are sparse and often seem to have lost some clarity in the translation to English. Online help is available, though, and Image Extract is easy enough to figure out without much guidance. Some PDF Image Extract is freeware, but for donations of $20 and up the developer will automatically notify of new releases.

 
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Publisher's Description

From SomePDF:

Some PDF Image Extract is an easily tool to extract images from PDF files. Some PDF Image Extract can easy help you to extract images in PDF files to TIFF, JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TGA, PBM, PPM. Easily extract images from PDF files to TIF, JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TGA, PBM, PPM, PCX with some PDF Image Extract. Version 1.5 is a bug fixing release.

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  • All versions:

    3.0 stars

    out of 27 votes

    • 5 star: 9
    • 4 star: 5
    • 3 star: 1
    • 2 star: 1
    • 1 star: 11
  • Current version:

    2.9 stars

    out of 21 votes

    • 5 star: 7
    • 4 star: 3
    • 3 star: 1
    • 2 star: 1
    • 1 star: 9
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  • 5.0 stars

    "spot on!!!! worked for me"

    January 23, 2012  |   By karyboy

    Version: Some PDF Image Extract 1.5

    Pros

    the only pro i can think of is that it did what its suppose to do...

    Cons

    i cannot see any con uptil now

    Summary

    Saved me time ....Nice Utility

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  • 4.0 stars

    "It does an admirable job."

    November 1, 2011  |   By jcrone_1

    Version: Some PDF Image Extract 1.5

    Pros

    I extracted some 2000 pages in a short time and have several thousand to go

    Cons

    Done not offer any ability change where the files go simply creates a directory below the PDF and puts them there.

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  • 1.0 stars

    "Wouldn't do as told"

    October 16, 2011  |   By liabilityman

    Version: Some PDF Image Extract 1.5

    Pros

    Could open and extract images as default JPG format

    Cons

    I wanted to extract to PNG to a specific folder but it ignored all of these settings and just dumped loads of JPGs to the desktop

    Summary

    Seemed promising but ultimately failed miserably.

    Waste of time

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  • 4.0 stars

    "worked for me"

    August 30, 2011  |   By ishmo65

    Version: Some PDF Image Extract 1.5

    Pros

    extracts images as expected

    Cons

    no privacy function - i.e. clear or reset path/folder/filenames

    Summary

    very good as far as I'm concerned

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  • 1.0 stars

    "spam maybe?"

    August 8, 2011  |   By newfedra

    Version: Some PDF Image Extract 1.5

    Pros

    it works... sometimes

    Cons

    You cannot get the download link until you give them a valid email address and subscribe to receive emails (ads) from them.

    Summary

    Here are the download links:


    Some PDF to Word Converter:
    http://www.somepdf.com/download/pdf2word_setup.exe

    Some PDF to Text Converter:
    http://www.somepdf.com/download/pdf2txt_setup.exe

    Some PDF to Html Converter:
    http://www.somepdf.com/download/pdf2html_setup.exe

    Some Text to PDF Converter:
    http://www.somepdf.com/download/text2pdf_setup.exe

    Some PDF Images Extract:
    http://www.somepdf.com/download/pdf2img_setup.exe

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  • 5.0 stars

    "Textless images from a layered pdf - this is it."

    June 27, 2011  |   By DMFax

    Version: Some PDF Image Extract 1.5

    Pros

    Extracts all images from the indicated page(s), then converts to the designated format. Reliable. Extracts images from the image layer only, removing text and watermarks from other "layers" in the .pdf.

    Cons

    Occasionally would hang up on a second batch of extractions - simply close and open again (small program, minimal effort). For the value, this is barely worth mentioning.

    Summary

    I searched for weeks for an application to extract a textless image from a .pdf. Adobe wants to charge $50+ for a license to Adobe Acrobat. Photoshop will do it, too, but that's even more expensive. Several friends understood my issue and offered some hacked software to do the job, but I wanted a legit, repeatable method.
    After several hours on a weekend morning, my GoogleFu brought me to CNET and this application. It did exactly what I wanted:
    Extracted the image I was after,
    Did not include the text-layer overlays on the image,
    (bonus) output the image in the graphic format for my choice.

    I'm a gamemaster for a gaming group, and I am extracting "maps" from adventure-bundle .pdf's. These maps frequently have GM-only notes, room markers, and "secrets" labeled, making use of the Snapshot tool useless. Any image created with the snapshot tool in a .pdf viewer would include these markings, which the players are not supposed to see. This program quickly, cleanly extracted JUST THE TEXTLESS IMAGE to a usable file.

    If you've been searching for as long as I was, and you end up here, your journey is over. Use this program to get the images you want.

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  • 1.0 stars

    "Terrible. Doesn't work."

    June 16, 2011  |   By Maeldor

    Version: Some PDF Image Extract 1.5

    Pros

    None......

    Cons

    Said it wasn't a valid pdf file and then crashed.

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  • 5.0 stars

    "Simply extracts images from PDF"

    April 6, 2011  |   By awesomenality

    Version: Some PDF Image Extract 1.5

    Pros

    Works great.

    Cons

    No issues found.

    Summary

    Had a pdf full of images. I extracted the embedded images from said pdf using this tool. Extracted images were of good quality. The end. Worked for my purposes.

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  • 1.0 stars

    "Crashes every time. No files created."

    February 22, 2011  |   By steelstrings

    Version: Some PDF Image Extract 1.5

    Pros

    None if you want to extract jpgs from pdfs. If you want to install software and review interfaces then I guess you could find some.

    Cons

    Doesn't work

    Summary

    Don't bother.

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  • 2.0 stars

    "crashes every time"

    February 13, 2011  |   By sujeet2555

    Version: Some PDF Image Extract 1.5

    Pros

    simple ,easy to use ,best suited extract images for one file at a time

    Cons

    setting are not saved and output are ppm file with jpg that are huge in sie.
    crashes when i import a directory of pdfs.crashes in between extraction or after extracting the first file.

    Summary

    good for a single file extraction.
    not suited for batch extraction.

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