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| author | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2017-05-07 11:56:19 +0200 |
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| committer | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2017-05-07 11:56:19 +0200 |
| commit | af8860d26a2e4848cd57c785753a500e3bc3d206 (patch) | |
| tree | 3bdce296d698da06dc7c8590dda431d200286f9c | |
| parent | 400fe3188e3f5a3e48700ae114a0da05ae6e599a (diff) | |
Updated documentation for `--extract-media`.
| -rw-r--r-- | MANUAL.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt index afcb5c7fd..032ab5972 100644 --- a/MANUAL.txt +++ b/MANUAL.txt @@ -523,10 +523,15 @@ Reader options `--extract-media=`*DIR* -: Extract images and other media contained in a docx or epub container - to the path *DIR*, creating it if necessary, and adjust the images - references in the document so they point to the extracted files. - This option only affects the docx and epub readers. +: Extract images and other media contained in or linked from + the source document to the path *DIR*, creating it if + necessary, and adjust the images references in the document + so they point to the extracted files. If the source format is + a binary container (docx, epub, or odt), the media is + extracted from the container and the original + filenames are used. Otherwise the media is read from the + file system or downloaded, and new filenames are constructed + based on SHA1 hashes of the contents. `--abbreviations=`*FILE* |