PDF Images

Embedded image operations (pdf-images)

Embedded image operations

Part of the Universal PDF Management & Creation Skill Repository. Category: PDF Management. Every skill is individually callable (INDIVIDUAL MODE) and may also be invoked automatically by the orchestrator (SYSTEM MODE).

When to use

Pull or inspect the raster images inside a PDF.

Operations

• extract images
• inspect image resolution
• render page->image
• optimize image quality
• image-heavy page detection

Engine (what actually executes this)

universal_pdf/core.images:extract_images / image_metadata / render_pages

All heavy lifting is done on disk / one page at a time by the shared engine — never by loading the document into an LLM context.

Tools & graceful degradation

• Preferred tool: PyMuPDF pixmap + PIL
• Fallback: —

If the preferred backend is unavailable the skill transparently uses the fallback or reports a documented limitation. It never reports success when an operation did not actually happen.

Validation (this skill attaches checks to its Outcome)

extracted count

Related skills

pdf-render, pdf-ocr, pdf-orchestrate

Example requests it handles

• "Extract all embedded images."
• "Which pages are image-heavy (scanned)?"

Notes

Provenance: outputs cite their source page/section where relevant.