[LAU] extract audio files embedded into adobe pdfs

[David Jones]

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.

David W. Jones
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