Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] PDF Converter

[Peter H. <ph...@ma...>]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:02:45AM -0700, Steven wrote:
> The simple act of converting a pdf file to something editable (like
> tif) seems to be quite the lucrative business. Thus far, I have been
> unable to find a free, no strings attached converter.

Ghostscript (a Unix utility also available for Windows) will do it:

gs -sDEVICE=tiffgray -sOutputFile=page%04d.tiff -r600 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -f example.pdf -c quit

You'll probably want to change the -r (resolution) to something lower,
whatever your needs are.

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