How to Convert PDF to TIFF

Other ways to convert PDF to TIFF

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   ImageMagick (command line)

   Convert all pages: `magick -density 300 input.pdf output_%03d.tiff`. Specific page: `magick -density 300 'input.pdf[0]' page_one.tiff` (pages start at index 0). LZW compression: `magick -density 300 input.pdf -compress LZW output_%03d.tiff`.

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   Ghostscript (best PDF rendering)

   `gs -sDEVICE=tiff24nc -r300 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output_%03d.tiff input.pdf`. Devices: tiff24nc (24-bit RGB), tiff32nc (32-bit CMYK), tiffgray (8-bit grayscale). ImageMagick uses Ghostscript under the hood for PDFs, so calling it directly gives the same rendering with more control.

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   poppler-utils / pdftoppm (fast, simple)

   Install: `brew install poppler` (Mac) or `sudo apt install poppler-utils` (Ubuntu). Convert to TIFF: `pdftoppm -r 300 -tiff input.pdf output_prefix`. Creates output_prefix-1.tif, -2.tif, etc.

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   Python pdf2image (scripted pipelines)

   `pip install pdf2image`. Script: `from pdf2image import convert_from_path; pages = convert_from_path('input.pdf', dpi=300); [page.save(f'page_{i:03d}.tiff', 'TIFF') for i, page in enumerate(pages)]`. For multi-page TIFF: `pages[0].save('doc.tiff', save_all=True, append_images=pages[1:])`.