Best way to convert pdf files to tiff files

How about pdf2tiff? http://python.net/~gherman/pdf2tiff.html

Use Imagemagick, or better yet, Ghostscript.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-graf2/#N101C2 has an example for imagemagick:

convert foo.pdf pages-%03d.tiff

http://www.asmail.be/msg0055376363.html has an example for ghostscript:

gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=a.tif foo.pdf -c quit

I would install ghostscript and read the man page for gs to see what exact options are needed and experiment.

https://pypi.org/project/pdf2tiff/

You could also use pdf2ps, ps2image and then convert from the resulting image to tiff with other utilities (I remember 'paul' [paul - Yet another image viewer (displays PNG, TIFF, GIF, JPG, etc.])

ABCPDF can do so as well -- check out http://www.websupergoo.com/helppdf6net/default.html

Disclaimer: work for product I am recommending

Atalasoft has a .NET library that can convert PDF to TIFF -- we are a partner of FOXIT, so the PDF rendering is very good.

Using GhostScript from the command line, I've used the following in the past:

on Windows:

gswin32c -dNOPAUSE -q -g300x300 -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output_file_name.tif input_file_name.pdf

on *nix:

gs -dNOPAUSE -q -g300x300 -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output_file_name.tif input_file_name.pdf

For a large number of files, a simple batch/shell script could be used to convert an arbitrary number of files...

I wrote a little powershell script to go through a directory structure and convert all pdf files to tiff files using ghostscript. Here is my script:

$tool = 'C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.63\bin\gswin32c.exe'
$pdfs = get-childitem . -recurse | where {$_.Extension -match "pdf"}


foreach($pdf in $pdfs)
{


$tiff = $pdf.FullName.split('.')[0] + '.tiff'
if(test-path $tiff)
{
"tiff file already exists " + $tiff
}
else
{
'Processing ' + $pdf.Name
$param = "-sOutputFile=$tiff"
& $tool -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=tiffg4 $param -r300 $pdf.FullName -c quit
}
}

using python this is what I ended up with

import os
os.popen(' '.join([
self._ghostscriptPath + 'gswin32c.exe',
'-q',
'-dNOPAUSE',
'-dBATCH',
'-r300',
'-sDEVICE=tiff12nc',
'-sPAPERSIZE=a4',
'-sOutputFile=%s %s' % (tifDest, pdfSource),
]))

I like PDFTIFF.com to convert PDF to TIFF, it can handle unlimited pages

1) Install GhostScript

2) Install ImageMagick

3) Create "Convert-to-TIFF.bat" (Windows XP, Vista, 7) and use the following line:

for %%f in (%*) DO "C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.6.4-Q16\convert.exe" -density 300 -compress lzw %%f %%f.tiff

Dragging any number of single-page PDF files onto this file will convert them to compressed TIFFs, at 300 DPI.

Required ghostscript & tiffcp Tested in Ubuntu

import os


def pdf2tiff(source, destination):
idx = destination.rindex('.')
destination = destination[:idx]
args = [
'-q', '-dNOPAUSE', '-dBATCH',
'-sDEVICE=tiffg4',
'-r600', '-sPAPERSIZE=a4',
'-sOutputFile=' + destination + '__%03d.tiff'
]
gs_cmd = 'gs ' + ' '.join(args) +' '+ source
os.system(gs_cmd)
args = [destination + '__*.tiff', destination + '.tiff' ]
tiffcp_cmd = 'tiffcp  ' + ' '.join(args)
os.system(tiffcp_cmd)
args = [destination + '__*.tiff']
rm_cmd = 'rm  ' + ' '.join(args)
os.system(rm_cmd)
pdf2tiff('abc.pdf', 'abc.tiff')

Maybe also try this? PDF Focus

This .Net library allows you to solve the problem :)

This code will help (Convert 1000 PDF files to 300-dpi TIFF files in C#):

    SautinSoft.PdfFocus f = new SautinSoft.PdfFocus();


string[] pdfFiles = Directory.GetFiles(@"d:\Folder with 1000 pdfs\", "*.pdf");
string folderWithTiffs = @"d:\Folder with TIFFs\";


foreach (string pdffile in pdfFiles)
{
f.OpenPdf(pdffile);


if (f.PageCount > 0)
{
//save all pages to tiff files with 300 dpi
f.ToImage(folderWithTiffs, Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(pdffile), System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Tiff, 300);
}
f.ClosePdf();
}

The PDF Focus .Net can do it in such way:

1. PDF to TIFF

SautinSoft.PdfFocus f = new SautinSoft.PdfFocus();


string pdfPath = @"c:\My.pdf";


string imageFolder = @"c:\images\";


f.OpenPdf(pdfPath);


if (f.PageCount > 0)
{
//Save all PDF pages to image folder as tiff images, 200 dpi
int result = f.ToImage(imageFolder, "page",System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Tiff, 200);
}

2. PDF to Multipage-TIFF

//Convert PDF file to Multipage TIFF file


SautinSoft.PdfFocus f = new SautinSoft.PdfFocus();


string pdfPath = @"c:\Document.pdf";
string tiffPath = @"c:\Result.tiff";


f.OpenPdf(pdfPath);


if (f.PageCount > 0)
{
f.ToMultipageTiff(tiffPath, 120) == 0)
{
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(tiffPath);
}
}