mutool draw

The draw command will render a document to image files, convert to another vector format, or extract the text content.

mutool draw [options] file [pages]

• The supported input document formats are: pdf, xps, cbz, md, and epub.

• The supported output image formats are: pbm, pgm, ppm, pam, png, pwg, pcl and ps.

• The supported output vector formats are: svg, pdf, and debug trace (as xml).

• The supported output text formats are: plain text, html, and structured text (as xml or json).

The options are:

-p password

Use the specified password if the file is encrypted.

-o output

The output file name. The output format is inferred from the output filename. Embed “%d” in the name to indicate the page number (for example: “page%d.png”). Printf modifiers are supported, for example “%03d”. If no output is specified, the output will go to stdout for text output formats, for image output formats nothing is outputted.

-F format

Enforce a specific output format. Only necessary when outputting to stdout since normally the output filename is used to infer the output format.

-q

Be quiet, do not print progress messages.

-R angle

Rotate clockwise by given number of degrees.

-r resolution

Render the page at the specified resolution. The default resolution is 72 dpi.

-w width

Render the page at the specified width (or, if the -r flag is used, render with a maximum width).

-h height

Render the page at the specified height (or, if the -r flag is used, render with a maximum height).

-f

Fit exactly; ignore the aspect ratio when matching specified width/heights.

-b box

Use named page box (MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox, TrimBox, or ArtBox).

-B bandheight

Render in banded mode with each band no taller than the given height. This uses less memory during rendering. Only compatible with pam, pgm, ppm, pnm and png output formats. Banded rendering and md5 checksumming may not be used at the same time.

-T threads

Number of threads to use for rendering (banded mode only).

-W width

Page width in points for EPUB layout.

-H height

Page height in points for EPUB layout.

-S size

Font size in points for EPUB layout.

-U filename

User CSS stylesheet for EPUB layout.

-X

Disable document styles for EPUB layout.

-a

Disable usage of accelerator file.

-c colorspace

Render in the specified colorspace. Supported colorspaces are: mono, gray, grayalpha, rgb, rgbalpha, cmyk, cmykalpha. Some abbreviations are allowed: m, g, ga, rgba, cmyka. The default is chosen based on the output format.

-e filename

Proof ICC profile filename for rendering.

-G gamma

Apply gamma correction. Some typical values are 0.7 or 1.4 to thin or darken text rendering.

-I

Invert colors.

-s [mft5]

Show various bits of information: m for glyph cache and total memory usage, f for page features such as whether the page is grayscale or color, t for per page rendering times as well statistics, and 5 for md5 checksums of rendered images that can be used to check if rendering has changed.

-A bits

Specify how many bits of anti-aliasing to use. The default is 8. 0 means no anti-aliasing, 9 means no anti-aliasing, centre-of-pixel rule, 10 means no anti-aliasing, any-part-of-a-pixel rule.

-A graphics-bits/text-bits

Specify separate numbers of bits for anti-aliasing for graphics and for text, use a slash / as separator.

-l width

Minimum stroke line width (in pixels).

-K

Do not draw text.

-KK

Only draw text.

-D

Disable use of display lists. May cause slowdowns, but should reduce the amount of memory used.

-i

Ignore errors.

-m limit

Limit memory usage in bytes.

-L

Low memory mode (avoid caching objects by clearing cache after each page).

-P

Run interpretation and rendering at the same time.

-N

Disable ICC workflow.

-M overprint

Control spot/overprint rendering: 0 for no spot rendering, 1 for Overprint simulation (default), or 2 for full spot rendering.

-t language

Specify language/script for OCR (default: eng)

-d ocr-file-path

Specify path for OCR files (default: rely on TESSDATA_PREFIX environment variable).

-k correction

Set the skew correction, either one of auto, 0 for increase size, 1 for maintain size, or 2 for decrease size.

-k correction,angle

Set the skew correction as well as the angle.

-y l

Print the layer configs to stderr.

-y layer-number

Select layer config (by number from -y l).

-y layer-number,item1,item2,…

Select layer config (by number from -y l) and toggle the listed items.

-Y

Print the individual layers to stderr.

-z layer-number

Hide individual layer.

-Z layer-number

Show individual layer.

file

Input file name.

[pages]

Comma-separated list of page ranges. The first page is “1”, and the last page is “N”. The default is “1-N”.