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Re: image in PDF file

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• Subject: [mg31442] Re: image in PDF file
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 05:28:58 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,

with ghostscript you can read the pdf and write it
to a bitmap format. Newer GSView versions have also
an Export option to save the image.

Acrobat 5.0 can grab images for pdf documents.

Regards
  Jens

"Nachbar, Robert B" wrote:
> 
> I have a PDF file that consists of a single page that is an image that was
> scanned in. Does anyone know how to either import the image directly into
> Mathematica or to convert the image to a format that Mathematica can import
> (such as TIFF)?
> 
> Please reply directly to me or CC me as I temporarily (several days) do not
> have newsgroup access.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob
> 
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