[LAU] extract audio files embedded into adobe pdfs

[David Jones]

On Mar 9, 2017 09:15, jonetsu <jonetsu at teksavvy.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:03:21 -1000 
> David Jones <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote: 
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> > On Mar 9, 2017 08:24, "Peter P." <peterparker at fastmail.com> wrote: 
> > > 
> > > * David Jones <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> [2017-03-09 18:55]: 
> > > > On Mar 8, 2017 23:50, "Peter P." <peterparker at fastmail.com> 
> > > > wrote: 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hi dear list, 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I was wondering if anyone has ever successfully tried to 
> > > > > extract audio files embedded into adobe pdf files? 
> > > > > 
> > > > > thanks 
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm, play the PDF while running jack_capture to save the audio 
> > > > output to another file? 
> > > Hi, and thank you! In order to play the audio in the PDF I guess I 
> > > would need to install adobe reader (which I want to avoid). 
> > 
> > Well, I suppose you could investigate whatever parts of the PDF 
> > standard pertain to embedding audio and maybe figure out how to use 
> > Linux tools to programmatically extract it. I have no idea how to do 
> > that. 
> > 
> > I think installing Acrobat Reader would be faster. You could 
> > uninstall it afterward. 
>
>
> Extracting audio from PDF files in Linux is well documented.  Simply 
> use google and be certain not to use search words like 'shootout', 
> 'Spectre', 'James Bond', 'wild west rhetoric' and 'mix wars'.  Provided 
> the OP is able to do that, results could be obtained. :) 

I typed "Linux how to extract audio from a PDF file" into my fave search engine and got useful links.

David W. Jones
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