Questions tagged [extract]
The process of reversing data compression and/or archiving
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How can I extract .rar files on the Mac? [closed]
Is there anything built-in that does this? (E.g. command line tools.) Or are there any third-party apps?
Update: I like The Unarchiver, but vote up your favourite, or add it as an answer if it isn’t ...
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How to extract text with OCR from a PDF on Linux?
How do I extract text from a PDF that wasn't built with an index? It's all text, but I can't search or select anything. I'm running Kubuntu, and Okular doesn't have this feature.
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Transferring Music from iPod to iTunes?
Is there a way for me to transfer music from my iPod to my iTunes? Say, if I accidentally deleted some music on my computer but I have the files on my iPod?
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How to extract image from PDF file
I currently use Foxit's PDF reader, and I recently downloaded an image from the Internet, but it is inside a PDF file. How do I extract this image?
Operating system is Windows 7.
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How to extract subtitle from video using ffmpeg?
I am trying to extract subtitle from video as .srt file, I used the following command:
ffmpeg -i mytestmovie.mkv -vn -an -codec:s:0.1 srt sub.srt
But, I got an error as Unrecognized option codec:s:0:...
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How do I extract an ISO on Linux without root access
I have a large ISO file on a server, and I need to access the file in it, without having root access. Thus, I can't simply mount it. What should I do to be able to extract an ISO on LInux without root ...
sergiu
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How to split pdf file in windows? [duplicate]
I have a PDF file with 120 pages. How can I extract only pages 20-30 and save it as another PDF file? I am using free version of Foxit Reader. It doesn't have this facility. Any solution?
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Excel extract substring from string
I am looking for a way to extract a variable length substring from a string.
My cells will look something like:
ABC - DEF
ABCDE - DEF
ABCD - ABC
I want to split the string at the - character, so ...
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Universal command line unarchiving tool on a Mac
Is there some command line tool which allows extracting files from most known archive types? Something like StuffIt Expander, but without gui.
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Extracting "one of every 10 frames" in a video using VLC or FFmpeg
I am trying to extract "exactly 1 frame of every 10" frames of a video (i.e. extract 1 , leave 9 then repeat) for scientific purposes. The video is 105 frames, 3.5 seconds, 29.97fps (h.264, .mov, ...
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How to extract corrupted RAR files
I try to extract a file from set of .RAR parts. I always get the following error:
Corrupted
so I tried many programs to extract the corrupted RAR files. I have 10 parts, each one 400MB big. The last ...
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Extracting audio from MP4 video into MP3
I downloaded a few MP4-encoded videos from which I'd like to extract the audio stream into MP3 files for easy listening on my digital player.
Most likely, VLC can do this, but the instructions ...
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How do I extract an InstallShield Cabinet file?
I need to extract the contents of an InstallShield Cabinet file (.cab).
What tools should I use for the job?
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In place extract tar archive
I have a little dilemma here...
I needed to move about 70 GB worth of files from one of my servers to the other, so I decided that tarring them up and sending the archive would be the fastest way.
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How do I extract highlighted text only from PDF files in Adobe Acrobat Pro version 9?
I'm reading a lot of pdf articles in Adobe Acrobat Pro and highlighting specific sections.
I would like to know if it is possible to extract just the text I highlighted from these pdf files?
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Software to get audio from home DVDs?
Not for illegal use! I have some home movies and footage from a wedding, and I'd like to easily 'rip' or extract the audio to WAV/MP3/etc.
If the audio came off as one big file, I am proficient ...
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Extract a certain file from an archive with 7-Zip from the command line
If I have an archive, for example, some.zip that contains one or more files, how can I extract only one file (I know the name of the file) with 7-Zip from the command line in Windows?
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Utility for extracting MIME attachments [closed]
I am looking for a command-line tool for Unix (ideally, available in a Debian / Ubuntu package) for extracting all MIME parts from a multipart email message (or the body from a singlepart with an ...
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Extract large zip file (50 GB) on Mac OS X
I was trying to move the files to another hard drive. So I archived all my photos in one large ZIP file using the Mac OS X built-in compress function.
But the file failed to extract. I've tried ...
chingjun
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How can I extract fonts from a PDF file?
Is there a way to extract fonts from PDF files?
I know that usually embedded fonts in PDF files are only subsets of the fonts. Anyway, is there a way to do this?
Joey
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Extracting background images from a PDF file?
I have a PDF file containing maps of the building I work in, here:
http://www.libsys.und.edu/dev/FloorPlans_All.pdf
The original source files have been lost, and I've been asked to extract the map ...
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A way to extract layer sets from PSD files without Photoshop?
Are there any tools for (in order of preference) Mac, Linux, or Windows to extract images per layer set from a PSD file, without using Photoshop? I had a web designer send me a PSD file containing ...
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Extract Links from a sitemap(xml)
Lets say I have a sitemap.xml file with this data:
<url>
<loc>http://domain.com/pag1</loc>
<lastmod>2012-08-25</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<...
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How do I extract Flash content from a PDF file?
I have a PDF file that has a flash file embedded.
How can I can extract that SWF from inside the PDF file?
Update:
I am using Windows 7.
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How to extract sound from a DVD movie to mp3
I have some workout DVD's which I would like to listen to while on the park (I don't have a big living room).
What can I use to extract the sound from the movies, on a Ubuntu machine, and convert it ...
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tar command - how to extract one file to specific directory
Is there a way to extract a single file from a tar file to a specific directory?
In fact, I am dealing with a .tgz file so, I am attempting something like this :
gunzip -c mytargzfile.tgz | tar xvf - ...
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Application for extracting XML tags from a document
I am looking for an application that will extract all XML tags contained within a specific XML file. For example I would get a list: <XML_TAG_ONE>,<XML_TAG_TWO> etc...
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Notepad ++ extract MAC addresses from text
How to extract MAC addresses from text to get a list where each line is one MAC adress only?
I try to mark MAC addresses with regex, bookmark lines and delete unmarked lines but there is still too ...
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What are good link extractors out there?
Link extractor - since I don't know a better name for it; a utility which can take a .htm file, and give me links from it, not counting and so, just direct links. Useful for files in which you have ...
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