I am trying to extract the highest resolution images I can from a pdf, so that I can clean it up via scantailor. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04. pdfimages -list returns three files for each page:
1 0 image 829 1254 rgb 3 8 jpx yes 3659 0 151 150 76.2K 2.5%
1 1 image 829 1254 rgb 3 8 image yes 3663 0 151 150 5250B 0.2%
1 2 mask 1658 2508 - 1 1 image yes 3663 0 301 300 5250B 1.0%
Plus a lot of:
Syntax Warning: Invalid Font Weight
Running pdfimages -p -all returns for each page a .jp2, .png, and .jb2e. The .jp2 appears to have the image and the others seem to be some kind of annotation (? the .png is a mask).
Questions: (1) Since jpeg 2000 is not straightforward in ubuntu, is there some other way to extract the images from the pdf without degrading the quality, and while separating out what appears to be the annotation. (2) Otherwise, how do I view the .jp2 in Ubuntu and convert them losslessly into a form that I can use via scantailor (.tif or .png)? (3) What is .jb2e?
