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.
There are a lot of free/paid html to pdf converter for us to convert any html to pdf documents. Today i would like to introduce a website which provide this service for free.
Convert any website to pdf document easily
html-pdf-converter.com is a simple pdf converter that did the conversion job pretty well. It renders the whole website and then convert it into a single pdf file, which include the images as well.
It is very simple to use. Simply enter the URL, and then hit the “Make PDF” button, and you will get your website in pdf format after few seconds.
I had installed some free pdf converter on my own PC, but html-pdf-converter.com will definately become my first choice if i am not using my own PC!
ConvertPDFToWord.net is an online service which can convert your PDF documents to Word documents on the fly. Simple upload your PDF and it will automatically convert to word format.
Using this service, you can you can easily grab the content or text from the PDF file. This service support other languages too.
There are some other similar services:
Pdfgeni.com is an excellent pdf documents search engine. It is powered by Google and can search any pdf documents or ebooks.
To use Pdfgeni, simply type your keywords and hit enter. You will get a list of pdf documents which related with your keywords. You may choose to download the pdf documents or view it online through your browser.
Pdfgeni is very suitable for use to search pdf documents like any publish article or cheet sheets. Although there are many web service which let users share pdf documents, but i prefer Pdfgeni because of its loading and searching speed.
Sometimes, when you want to open your PDF or Word documents at others’ computer but unfortunately the comuter doesn’t have such application to open them (although this is very rare case).
So, what you going to do? If your document is PDF format, you may download Foxit Reader to open it. But if the document is Word format, how you are going to open it? Download the OpenOffice and install at that computer? It is impossible for us to download the whole application for just want to open a file right?
So, maybe you can try the online File Viewer for PDF, Word and PosiScript service. You may need to upload the documents from your local drive, but i am not sure about the maxuimum file size allowed. As you can see from the screenshot, there are some control buttons on the left hand side of the documents.
This Online File Viewer actually convert the PDF and PostScript documents into image and display to the users. These documents are keep in the server and will be deleted 3 days after the last view.
Adobe had released its new PDF reader, Adobe Reader 9. With Adobe Reader 9, users can play Flash, shockwave, and other rich media contents directly from Adobe Reader without the need to open another applications.
Adobe Reader 9 also loads faster than its previous version. The main attraction of Adobe Reader 9 is users can view the flash content from the reader, without the need to open another applications. I am sure a lot of rich media PDF documents will come out due to this feature.
I hope Adobe Reader 9’s load speed will not affected by these rich media content, else users will go to other alternatives such as Foxit Reader or Sumatra PDF, which load faster than Adobe Reader.
As we know, some of the PDF documents contains restrictions such as not allow users to print, copy and paste. You can use PDF Unlocker to remove these restrictions easily.
Some PDF creator will add restrictions to the PDF documents to protect the contents from being copied or printed by users. Users still can print, copy and paste the PDF documents, if they have the passwords to unlock the documents.
However, with PDF Unlocker, you can easily remove these restrictions. After installing the application, a shortcut will appear on the dekstop. Simply drag and drop any PDF documents to PDF Unlocker’s icon and all restrictions will be removed.
If the PDF documents required password to open/read, you can use PDF Unlocker to remove the password. But, you need to know the password before unlock them.
Source: Techtrends
Google Docs users may discover that they can start upload, preview and share PDF documents. Google had announced this feature in the blog and every Google Docs users can enjoy it.
Following Scribd, SlideShare, Docstoc, Google finally launched PDF documents sharing service. With this service, Google Docs users can upload and share PDF documents.
Currently, users can only upload and view the PDF documents, but they are not allow to edit. Also, the maximum size supported is 10MB for documents upload from PC, while 2MB for documents from web.
I hope that Google will implement the PDF editing feature in future. Furthermore, if Google let users to save documents directly to PDF format will be the best.
Source: Google docs blog
Foxit Reader is definitely best Adobe reader replacement. However, we are not able to enable the thumbnail preview in Windows Explorer if we set it as a default PDF viewer. This tip will help you to turn this feature on.
A lot of Foxit reader users request this feature, but unfortunately they haven’t implement it, even in the latest 2.3 version. I try to search through internet and i found a great article which can do this.
After your finish these steps, you can view the PDF thumbnails in windows explorer while still set Foxit reader as your default PDF viewer.
For a limited time, SitePoint is giving free copy of Photoshop ebook called “The Photoshop Anthology”. This book will cover different web design techniques by using Photoshop.
What you need to do is just provide your email address, and they will send you the download link. There are two format of ebook (high resolution and low resolution). I suggest that you download the high resolution version, although it may take longer time. But it is worth as you get higher quality of graphics and images.
I had use my yahoo mail in the email form, but unfortunately it take few hours before i can get the download link. You can direct download the ebook from sitepoint without register (Thanks labnol for sharing the link).
download high resolution version | download low resolution version
Source: labnol
