PhonAndroid How to Extract an Image from a PDF File on Windows

PDF is a widely used and very practical format, but not very flexible. If it does not allow you to take images from a file, there are however very simple solutions to achieve this. In this quick tutorial, we will give you some of them. Three to be precise.

A PDF file is not interactive, so it is not possible to extract an image or a part as one could do with a Word document or a PowerPoint. However, there are easy solutions to get there. In this tutorial, we will give you three simple manipulations to extract an image from a PDF. If you are not comfortable with computers, rest assured, these methods can be done by anyone.

Before you start, know that these manipulations are all performed on Windows 10 (and also work on Windows 11). But some of them can also be used on Mac.

Use the Windows screenshot tool:

Windows 10 offers several methods to easily take screenshots. You can take a look at the different manipulations in this dedicated tutorial, but for this one, we will settle for the simplest:

Note that this method works for a PDF, but not only, the screen capture tool works on everything that is displayed in front of your eyes. You can therefore use it on Internet pages, on various documents or even on applications.

Using LibreOffice:

LibreOffice is a free software suite that could be roughly compared to Microsoft's Office suite. It allows you to easily recover an image from a PDF:

A very simple method, but which has the disadvantage of making you download something, which you don't necessarily want.

Use a third-party site:

It is also possible to go through specialized sites to extract images from a PDF. An extremely basic method, probably the simplest in this tutorial. It has the merit of being entirely online, and therefore of not requiring you to download a dedicated tool on your computer.

This method has the advantage of being fast and having all the images at once. Convenient if you want to retrieve everything in a PDF.

There are of course other methods for taking images from a PDF, such as with Adobe Acrobat Reader, Photoshop (paid) or PDF Converter. In reality, all bring the same result: you have the desired image outside the original file. With these three techniques, you should be able to get away with it easily, even if you're not good with a computer. Feel free to share your methods in the comments!

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