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Extracting images with Adobe Reader
From the course: Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB
Extracting images with Adobe Reader
I know that there is a small but important percentage of you watching this video who don't have Acrobat Pro. You might have the PDF but all you have is the free Adobe Reader Utility. And if you're wondering, is there any possible way for me to get these images and text out of this PDF with Reader? There is. It's more difficult. You don't have as many options and I would really exhort you to go ahead and buy Acrobat or one of the less expensive equivalents if it has the same kind of image and text extraction features that Acrobat does. I do want to spend this video and some of the next video on talking about how to extract images and text with Reader. So in this one we are going to talk about images. I have Adobe Reader open, version 10, the latest version, and unfortunately, it doesn't have the same wonderful tools that you might be accustomed to. Like say, for example, we want to extract this picture of the saguaro cacti. If you go to the tools panel in Reader looking for that…
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