I am currently working on a website, and I have a pdf catalog with a bunch of pictures of pens in it. Each page has 1 or more pens, and I need to get each pen out neatly so I can separate them. I have Adobe Acrobat 9 and Photoshop (CS3 i think). I know how to make each page into an image, and have done that. I tried just using the wand tool to select background areas, but a lot of the time that delete's parts of the pens. I also tried using the pen tool to select each one, but that takes a long time to do, because I then have to erase around the edges of each pen picture anyway, and sometimes it leaves me with little jagged edges.

After I separate the pens I'm adding a little drop shadow, just to make them look nicer on a page.

Here's the pdf I'm extracting from if you need to see it:
http://www.sailorpensus.com/wp/wp-content/...09/02/cat11.pdf


I was wondering if there is a quicker and neater way to do this than my current way.

If that's your source, pretty sure all you can do is the slow tedious way

yeah just use the pen tool youll get better and faster with every cut and when this is over youll have great skills with pen tool!