entries for month: October 2010

Extracting Embedded Images from PDF's »

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Tags: Railo, Coldfusion

I recently had the task of downloading a large number of pdf's, extract the image from the 1st page of each pdf, then to proceed to crop, resize and alter the colour mode for these images to grayscale. Not wanting to do this task the long mundane way, i thought about how i could set up a Coldfusion script to do this for me.

The post just outlines the methods and functions i adopted to get this task done.

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