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 \begin{framed}
 \noindent\small\verb!cpdf -image-resolution <minimum resolution> in.pdf [<range>]!
 
-%\vspace{1.5mm}
+\vspace{1.5mm}
-%\noindent\small\verb!cpdf -extract-images in.pdf [<range>] -o <string>!
+\noindent\small\verb!cpdf -extract-images in.pdf [<range>] [-im <path>] [-p2p <path] -o <path>!
 \end{framed}
+
+\section{Extracting images}
+
+Cpdf can extract the raster images to a given location. JPEG, JPEG2000 and JBIG2 images are extracted directly. Other images are written as PNGs, processed with either ImageMagick's ``magick'' command, or NetPBM's ``pnmtopng'' program, whichever is installed.
+
+  \begin{framed}
+  \noindent\small\verb@cpdf -extract-images in.pdf [<range>] [-im <path>] [-p2p <path] -o <path>@
+  \end{framed}
+
+\noindent The \texttt{-im} or \texttt{-p2p} option is used to give the path to the external tool, one of which must be installed. The output specifer, e.g \verb!-o output/%%%! gives the number format for numbering the images. Output files are named serially from 0, and include the page number too. For example, output files might be called \texttt{output/000-p1.jpg}, \texttt{output/001-p1.png}, \texttt{output/002-p3.jpg} etc. Here is an example invocation:
+
+  \begin{framed}
+  \noindent\small\verb@cpdf -extract-images in.pdf -im magick -o output/%%%@
+  \end{framed}
+
+\noindent The \texttt{output} directory must already exist.
+
+
   \section{Detecting Low-resolution Images}\label{imageres}
   To list all images in the given range of pages which fall below a given resolution (in dots-per-inch), use the \verb!-image-resolution! function:
   \begin{framed}