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Re:PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later by enriquto on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:49PM (#24114411)
This sounds like a very bad software for pdf creation. Notice that the pdf standard contains the jpeg and the png formats as subsets, so you can embed such images directly into a pdf file.
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Re:PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later by hnick on Monday August 10, 2020 @10:13PM (#24116543)
Yes, literally just copy everything between stream/endstream for a DCTDecode image and you can save it as a JPEG. Sounds like the tool's creator didn't know about that encoding.
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