dcm2pdf(1)

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💅 NAME 💅

dcm2pdf — the little icon that pulls a PDF file out of a DICOM encapsulated PDF, no cap 🎀

This one lives in the OFFIS DCMTK manual, bestie — like, whole manual family, this is one page of it ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dcm2pdf [options] dcmfile-in pdffile-out

So it's giving: you hand it a dcmfile-in (the DICOM file you're digging through) and a pdffile-out (where the extracted PDF should land), and there's an [options] slot sitting in the middle like the main character it is 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so, real talk: the dcm2pdf tool is deprecated 💀 That's not me being dramatic, that's the actual manual. It's the "we don't really do this anymore" era of this tool.

Use dcmdecap instead — and here's the slay part: dcmdecap supports the same command line parameters, and more 🔥 So you're not losing anything, you're literally upgrading. It ate and left no crumbs 👑

bestie please, if you were about to reach for dcm2pdf, just reach for dcmdecap instead — it's the same energy plus extra 🌈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • dcmdecap(1) — the replacement, the upgrade, the one you should actually be reading iykyk 💖

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