pdffigures is a command line tool that can be used to extract figures, tables, and captions from scholarly documents. See the project website.
- Compile the command line tools:
make DEBUG=0
- Run on a new PDF document and display the results:
pdffigures -f /path/to/pdf
See pdffigures -help for a list of additional command line arguements.
pdffigures requires leptonica and poppler to be installed. On MAC both of these dependencies can be installl through homebrew:
brew install leptonica poppler
On Ubuntu these dependencies can be install through apt-get:
sudo apt-get install libpoppler-dev libleptonica-dev
pdffigures uses std::regex, therefore compiling on Ubuntu requires g++ >= 4.9
pdffigures has been tested on MAC OS X 10.9 and Ubuntu 14.04, Windows is not supported.