[LAU] extract audio files embedded into adobe pdfs

jonetsu jonetsu at teksavvy.com
Thu Mar 9 19:15:26 UTC 2017


On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:03:21 -1000
David Jones <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:

> 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. :)



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