pdf2zip

pdf2zip is a small utility to batch convert PDFs that are image based (like many online distributions of magazines are) into a zipfile full of images. Various options are available, including options on the quality of the resulting images, options to scale or resize the images to a bounding box, and the ability to specify pages in the PDF to skip.

This was primarily developed for personal use, but is made available in the hopes that it might be useful for someone.

To install, just:

pip install pdf2zip

usage

Usage: ./pdf2zip [options] file.pdf

Options:

--version	show program's version number and exit
-h, --help	show this help message and exit
--skip=SKIP	comma separated pages to skip (0 is first)
--skip-file=SKIP_FILE
	supply a file with a number per line of pages to skip
--scale=SCALE	scale pages to certain size (ex. 50%)
-d DIMENSIONS, --dimensions=DIMENSIONS
	resize images to fit within box
-q QUALITY, --quality=QUALITY
	quality of jpeg compression (default 90)
--ipad	resize images to a good size for ipad