Use Imagemagick, or better yet, Ghostscript. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-graf2/#N101C2 has an example for imagemagick: convert foo.pdf pages-%03d.tiff http://www.asmail.be/msg0055376363.html has an example for ghostscript: gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=a.tif foo.pdf -c quit I would install ghostscript and read the man page for gs to see what exact options are needed and experiment.
Besides the GUI-based tools mentioned in the other answers, there are a few command line tools which can transform the original PDF source code into a different representation which lets you inspect the (now modified file) with a text editor. All of the tools below work on Linux, Mac OS X, other Unix systems or … Read more
In General Please be aware that the “Document Restrictions Summary” summarizes restrictions that arise from a number of factors, the following ones coming to my mind: Restrictions applied in the course of encryption When encrypting a PDF, permissions for a number of features can be restricted for a regular user. Thus, if the PDF is … Read more
Try this solution based on https://ctrlq.org/code/19869-email-google-spreadsheets-pdf Using export url parameters you can set needed options for result pdf. Also you can set specific id of sheet to export, so you don’t need to make duplicate of your whole spreadsheet anymore. function CreaPDF() { //The function prints an invoice to PDF. First it copies spreadsheet to … Read more
Edit: Updated for DriveApp, as DocsList deprecated. I suggest breaking this down into two problems. The first is how to get a pdf attachment from an email, the second is how to convert that pdf to text. As you’ve found out, getContentAsString() does not magically change a pdf attachment to plain text or html. We … Read more
Unfortunately it doesn’t seem quite easy to get the (possibly different) page sizes (or *Boxes for that matter) inside a PDF with the help of Ghostscript. But since you asked for other possibilities as well: a rather reliable way to determine the media sizes for each page (and even each one of the embedded {Trim,Media,Crop,Bleed}Boxes) … Read more
Meanwhile the latest Ghostscript releases have a much nicer and easier to use method of removing all images from a PDF. The parameter to add to the command line is -dFILTERIMAGE gs -o noimages.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFILTERIMAGE input.pdf Even better, you can also remove all text or all vector drawing elements from a PDF by specifying … Read more
Handy way: Using Browser Printing/Preview Hide editor pane Print Preview (I used firefox, others also fine) Change its page setup and print to pdf
Yes, with Ghostscript, you can extract text from PDFs. But no, it is not the best tool for the job. And no, you cannot do it in “portions” (parts of single pages). What you can do: extract the text of a certain range of pages only. First: Ghostscript’s txtwrite output device (not so good) gs … Read more
You have several options. All these methods work on Linux as well as on Windows or Mac OS X. However, be aware that most PDFs do not include to full, complete fontface when they have a font embedded. Mostly they include just the subset of glyphs used in the document. Using pdftops One of the … Read more