Converting PDFs to Images via command line

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Well as the subject line suggests, I’m looking for a way to convert existing PDFs into images (PNG, BMP, JPG, etc) via the command line.


I’ve looked at the command-line documentation but it appears to only show examples of converting the other way (image to PDF) instead.

Looking for help please…

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Hi,

you can have a look into the COM\Windows Scripting Host\VBScripts\converttotiff.vbs in your PDFCreator directory, there is an example for converting pdf to tiff files.

regards,

Robin

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I have the same question. I don’t want to use COM though. Is it not possible to do through command line?

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Hi,

it should be possible by setting the PDFCreator printer to use one of the image profiles in application settings -> printer and then using pdfcreator.exe /printfile . However you will not be able to set the output location in the command line.

Best regards,

Robin

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Try this command is more simple.
"C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Bin\gswin32c.exe" -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=tiff24nc -sOutputFile="C:!chemin!!filename!.tif" -r300 "C:!chemin!!filename!!ext!" -c quit
It can generate multipage tiff file that can be used to OCR software lire tesseract for exemple