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The process of reversing data compression and/or archiving

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How can I extract RAR files in macOS?

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 or GUI.
Paul D. Waite
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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:0:1 So, can you tell me the exact command and how…
vijay
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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, .r01, etc. Is there a trick I'm missing or this is…
xyster
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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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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.
studiohack
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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 available on all systems.
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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.
agentofuser
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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
Sekhemty
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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 followed on their forums gave out a "bubbly" sound…
OverTheRainbow
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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?
Karolinger
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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 else. $ sudo dmg2dir jdk-8u51-macosx-x64.dmg ==>…
qubodup
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Utility for extracting MIME attachments

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 interesting content-type, for that matter). I have…
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How to split pdf file in windows?

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?
Harikrishnan
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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?
Piotr Dobrogost
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7-Zip command line: Extract silently/quietly

Possible Duplicate: How to disable the output of 7-Zip? I want to use 7z.exe from a command prompt to silently/quietly extract an archive. I do not want to use third-party scripts or APIs. Does 7-Zip have native support for quiet command-line…
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