PdfTrick

Thanks to its properties and advantages, the Portable Document Format (or in short, PDF) is often preferred for file transfers over the Internet. However, users can face certain problems if they want to extract content from the document they received. Whether it is text or graphics, a dedicated application is required to complete the task.

PdfTrick is a simple utility that comes in handy in situations when you need to grab images inside PDF documents and save them to your computer. It features selective extraction, which means you get to choose which pictures to save and which to skip.

The application is capable of scanning a PDF document and finding all the containing graphics, displaying thumbs for each, so that you can identify the images you want much easier.

It can handle multiple PDF files at once, showing a small preview of each in the left pane of its main window. Adding new documents to the list is done either using the dedicated option in the 'File' menu or by simply dragging and dropping files within PdfTrick's interface.

Once the desired PDF file is loaded, you must select the pictures you want PdfTrick to extract by clicking on the corresponding thumbnail. A second click unselects an image, but you can also clear the selection and start over.

Pictures are saved to a user-defined location in the original format, which can be JPG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, JPG2000 and so on. Unfortunately, there is no option to let you choose the image format you want.

PdfTrick successfully fulfills a simple mission, namely to provide a simple way to extract one or more images from within PDF documents. It offers you control over the content to extract and can process multiple PDFs in one go, but it lacks options related to the output type and quality.