I want to automatically extract figures from papers, but of course most papers come in .pdf, not .ps form... This site has a great tool for extracting figures from .ps papers: http://www-hermes.desy.de/notes/extras/postscript.html If anyone can tell me how to do the same thing for .pdfs (automatically extract figures from pdfs) I'd appreciate it. Update 12/13/08: One solution is listed at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=884002: use pdfimages, part of the xpdf package.