Output Format

PDFdeconstruct generates the following XML output (which may be written to multiple files):

• Info: There will be one XML info element, containing the PDF document-level metadata.
• Outline: There will be one XML outline element, if the -outline switch was used and the document has an outline. If the PDF file does not have an outline, the outline element will not be present.
• Pages: There will be one XML page element for each page in the PDF file (possibly constrained by the -f and -l options). Each page element describes the content of a page.
• Resources: There will be one XML resources element, listing all fonts and images used in the PDF document. Both fonts and images can be reused across multiple pages – each PDF font or image object is listed only once in the resources element.

It also generates separate files for resource data:

• Fonts: Any fonts embedded in the PDF file will be extracted and placed in the output directory.
• Images: All images in the PDF file will be extracted and placed in the output directory. Format conversion is controlled by the -imagefmt and -keepjpeg options.