• February 19, 2025
• in Document Processing
• 1 min read

Convert PDF to TIFF

Convert pdf files to tiff images with pdftoppm or ghostscript.

pdftoppm

Install pdftoppm

To install pdftoppm (included in poppler-utils)¹²³

Ubuntu

sudo apt install poppler-utils

conda

Available in both Windows and Linux.

conda install -c conda-forge poppler

Usage

See documentation of pdftoppm.

For example, to convert the pdf file to a 300-DPI TIFF image with LZW compression.

pdftoppm -tiff -tiffcompression lzw -r 300 in.pdf out.tif

ImageMagick

Install

Ubuntu

sudo apt install imagemagick

Windows

choco install -y imagemagick

Usage

How to convert a pdf file to a tiff file:

magick "image.pdf" -density 300 \
        -compress lzw \
        -background white \
        -alpha remove \
        -trim \
        "image_%d.tiff"

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1. https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/03/how-to-convert-pdf-to-image-png-jpeg.html ↩

2. https://jdhao.github.io/2019/11/14/convert_pdf_to_images_pdftoppm/ ↩

3. https://officeguide.cc/linux-pdftoppm-convert-pdf-to-jpg-png-tiff-image-tutorial-examples/ ↩