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"