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Convert PDF to TIFF

Convert pdf files to tiff images with pdftoppm or ghostscript.

pdftoppm

Install

To install pdftoppm (included in poppler-utils)123

sudo apt install poppler-utils

sudo pacman -S poppler-utils

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

GhostScript and ImageMagick

Install

To install GhostScript and ImageMagick

sudo apt install ghostscript imagemagick

sudo pacman -S ghostscript imagemagick

choco install -y ghostscript imagemagick

Note

For security reasons, PDF read/write operations are disable by default. You enable this function by editing the settings file /etc/ImageMagick-7/policy.xml

/etc/ImageMagick-7/policy.xml
<policy domain="coder" rights="read | write" pattern="PDF" />

Usage

How to convert a pdf file to a tiff file:

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

  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/ ↩

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