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Nel ricercare un tool su SourceForge che mi permettesse di esportare le immagini da un PDF, ho trovato interessanti librerie che mi propongo di analizzare nel medio-lungo periodo (il tempo è tiranno e gli impegni molti):

• PDFBox [Java]: PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. PDFBox also includes several command line utilities.
• PHP PDF Factory [PHP]: PDFLib-free PDF creation using PHP. It has interface compatible with php pdf creator (pdf-php library). Implements most of Adobe recommended features like PageTrees, Outlines, and so on.
• XML-PDF Transformation GUI [Java]: This is a Java Swing GUI for popular XML tools from the Apache Group. It uses Xerces for XML validation, Xalan for XSLT, FOP for XML to PDF and iText for adding security features to the PDF. Can produce FO, HTML and PDF. I personally use it for my DocBook.
• QPDF [C++]: QPDF is a command-line program that [...] is capable of creating linearized [...] files and encrypted files. It is also capable of converting PDF files with object streams [...] to files with no compressed objects or to generate object streams from files that don't have them (or even those that already do). QPDF also supports a special mode designed to allow you to edit the content of PDF files in a text editor. For more details, please see the documentation links below.
• PDF Edit [C++,XPDF, QT3,QSA]: Free (and open source) editor for manipulating PDF documents. GUI version + commandline interface. Scripting is used to a great extent in editor and almost anything can be scripted, it is possible to create own scripts or plugins. Target platform are operating systems of Unix type (Linux, BSD).
• [PHP]: Want to create dynamic pdf documents with PHP, but don't want to (or can't) install any of those required modules? Wll we could have the solution.. for you, a PHP class which will allow the easy production of simple pdf documents.
• Inno-PDF, iText, PDF4J [Java]: librerie Java per la generazione di PDF;
• TCPDF, PC4P, PHP PDF Creation [PHP]: classi per la generazione di documenti PDF;
• PDML [PHP]: PDML is an informal markup language written in 100% PHP, allowing to create complex PDF documents very easily for people already familiar with HTML. People familiar with PHP can also use it as a way to define templates for dynamic PDF documents. PDML is built on top of FPDF, and is licensed under the GPL;
• Peters PHP PDF Report: A PHP5 class, which capable to generate PDF report (w optional sections like pageheader, reportheader, content etc..) based on fpdf class. The report is defined in xml, groups' definitions and variable replacement from any database are supported.
• WP2PDF: it is a script that converts the content of one or more entries of the Blog-Software WordPress to PDF. It is based on FPDF, a free PDF library and written in PHP. It requires a working WordPress installation and PHP 4.x.