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How to extract images from PDF files within 5 steps

Posted by Lim on Sep 21st, 09 | Filed under Application | No Comments

How do you extract images from your pdf files? One of the most conventional way to extract images from pdf files is pressing the print screen button, open your image editor and paste the copied screen shot.

Do you know that you can actually use software application to easily extract images from pdf files? I am going to share a tool called PDF Image Extraction Wizard, which is a step-by-step wizard tool to extract images from pdf files.

Step 1: Launch the PDF Image Extraction Wizard.
Launch PDF Extraction Wizard

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Extract any icons from files easily with IconExtract

Posted by Lim on Jul 27th, 08 | Filed under Application, Cool Stuff, Portable Apps, Tips | 1 Comment

IconExtract is able to extract any icons/cursors from files. It is able to scan and extract icons from exe, dll, ocx, and cpl file types.

What will you do when you saw an interesting icon or cursor from a file? You probably want to grab the image, but how to grab it?

This free utilities from nirsoft.net will helps you to scan and extract any icon or cursor from the given file. Simply launch the application, drag and drop the file to it, and the application will scans and shows you the icons and cursors in the files.

You may right-click and choose to save the icon to a file (.ico format), or you may select copy to clipboard. After copy to your clipboard, you may use your favorite image editor software to edit and save in your desired format.

This is a portable application. So you can always bring it along with your USB flash drive.

download IconExtract | download from MediaFire

Create self-extracting package using built-in Windows tool

Posted by Lim on Jun 3rd, 08 | Filed under Application, Cool Stuff, Tips, Tutorial | 3 Comments

Microsoft Windows comes with a handy tool for us to create self-extracting/self-installing package.

There are a lot of applications for us to zip/unzip files/folders, some of them even let users to create self-extracting package. Winzip, WinRar, and 7-zip are among the famous applications which provide these features. But, do you know that Windows actually comes with built-in tool to do this?

Steps

  1. Go to Start -> Run -> type “iexpress“.
  2. An IExpress Wizard will popup. Choose “Create new Self Extraction Directive file” and press Next.
  3. Choose “Extract files only” and press Next. Then give your package a name.
  4. After you name your package, press Next for the following dialog boxes, until you asked to add files into your package.
  5. Here, i had added 2 files. After you add your files, press Next to continue.
  6. Press Next for the following dialog boxes. After that, provide target path and filename for your package, and you can choose to either create a Self Extraction Directive file or not. This is to let you modify the package in future.
  7. Done. Now you created a “xxx.exe” package which will extract to targeted location when launch.

PDFTextOnline – Free online PDF to text converter

Posted by Lim on Mar 2nd, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Internet | 1 Comment

PDFTextOnline is a free converter which provide PDF to text conversion. It can extract text from a PDF document and you can download the output as a zip file to your own computer.

PDFTextOnline

There are a lot of desktop applications that move into web applications. One of the example is Google Docs, which let users cerate or edit word documents online. Now, we can even extract text online.

We read a lot of PDF documents and sometimes we may want to copy text/image from the documents. With PDFTextOnline, you can quickly extract the text in the PDF documents. It will remains the pages, but the extracted text’s style looks different with the original document.

To use the service, simply upload your PDF document, wait for a while and you will get the result. They provide 2 options which let users choose the Font type and Page Layout.

PDFTextOnline example

This service is very useful especially when you are surfing through others computer which don’t have PDF editing tools. There are few advantages of this web application:

  • Converts PDF quickly and easily.
  • Handles all fonts and languages (including Chinese, Japanese, and more).
  • Provides easy access to form data, document properties, and bookmarks.
  • No software download.

PDFTextOnline