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?
How can I extract RAR files in macOS? The built-in Archive Utility only supports ZIP.
Is there anything else, built-in or third-party, that also supports RAR?
I don't mind whether it's Terminal-only ...
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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 can I extract multipart RAR files using the command line unrar.exe?
Is there a way to extract all RAR files using unrar.exe via the command line without passing it each part?
I have lots of multipart RAR files in mixed formats: .part1.rar, .part2.rar or .rar, .r00, ....
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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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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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Extract 7z files with standard linux tools?
I know that you can extract .7z files with 7-zip.
Is there another standard linux program that can do this? Maybe one of these
tar
bzip2
xz
gzip
I will add that bsdtar can do this, but is not ...
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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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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 can I extract files from an AppImage?
Simple question, how can I extract files from an AppImage?
GUI, CLI, it doesn't matter, as long as it gets the job done.
I'm using openSUSE Tumbleweed if it matters
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Lossless extraction of streams from WebM
I would like to extract streams from WebM video files without converting them (re-compression), can somebody recommend any software that can allow this?
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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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How to extract a .dmg file in Linux?
As a Linux user, I need to get the content of a .dmg (Mac OSX disk image) file which contains an application installer.
I tried dmg2dir (which requires dmg2img) which created an .img file but nothing ...
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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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How to save all images embedded in email in Thunderbird?
In Thunderbird, how to save all images embedded (multipart/related MIME format) in email in one turn?
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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 ...