PDF2TIFF

A bash shell script to convert PDFs in a folder to bitonal multi-page tiff files

Getting Started

Run pdf2tiff.sh within a folder of PDFs you want to convert. TIFF files will be produced alongside your PDFs. PDFs are not changed in any way.

Prerequisites

This script requires GhostScript. If you don't have it, you can install it.

sudo apt install ghostscript

Installing

Copy or pull pdf2tiff to your machine

make the script executable

chmod u+x pdf2tiff.sh

Execute pdf2tiff

pdf2tiff.sh

Or run with bash if you don't want to make it executable

bash pdf2tiff.sh

You can refer back to the location of the script when you need to use pdf2tiff in another folder.

bash ~/somefolder/pdf2tiff.sh

Example

$ bash pdf2tiff.sh
Converting PDF to TIFF - demo.pdf...
GPL Ghostscript 9.19 (2016-03-23)
Copyright (C) 2016 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 24.
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processed demo.pdf to TIFF in 1 seconds
1 processed in 1 seconds