PDF to TIFF Extractor user manual

• Introduction

PDF Extract TIFF software is a simple and affordable extraction tool that facilitates the reuse of PDF files by enabling you to extract images from PDF files and save them as TIFF images. You can then use or edit the images in other Windows applications such as MS Word, Adobe Photoshop, or any other image enhancement/manipulation program.
PDF Extract TIFF software can be used to extract pictures from your PDF file on the fly, but it can't convert text, graphics and other information into the TIFF or JPG files.

• Features

• Support LZW, RunLength, CCITTFax, DCT, Flate, JBIG2 decompress technology
• High speed processing, Extract TIFF files from PDF files directly;
• Convert PDF files to TIFF files and JPG files on the fly
• Support PDF1.8 protocol (formerly only supported by Acrobat 9.0)
• Keep the best compression ratio in generated TIFF images
• Support command line operation (for manual use or inclusion in scripts)
• Do NOT need Adobe Acrobat software
• Support Win98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/etc. platform
• Support drag and drop files
• Fully independent, does NOT depend on any third party technology
• Support merge small strips within one page
• Support extract color images as JPG files
• Support remove thumbnail pictures
• Support generate multi-page or single-page TIFF files
• Support auto detect and invert color for White&Black pictures
• Support auto scale pictures according to original paper size
  

• USE PDF Extract TIFF software

Menu: Functions Menu
Open: Open PDF files and Save as to image files
Buy: Buy this software online
Web: Go to PDF Extract TIFF software's website
Email: Email us if you encounter any problem
About: About this software

• Functions in shortcut menu

Open PDF File: Open PDF files and Save as to TIFF or JPG files.
Save To Multi-Page TIFF file: Convert PDF file to multi-page TIFF file.
Save To Multiple TIFF files: Convert PDF file to single-page TIFF files.
Option Settings: Set options for PDF to TIFF conversion.
Help Document: Invoke this document.
Technical Support: If you encounter any problem, please mail to us.
PDF Extract TIFF on the web: Go to PDF Extract TIFF software's website.
Buy Online: Buy PDF Extract TIFF software online.
On The Top: Bring PDF Extract TIFF main window top most.
About: About this software.
Exit: Exit PDF Extract TIFF software.

• Option Settings

Horizontal DPI: Set X DPI in the generated TIFF and JPG files.
Vertical DPI: Set Y DPI in the generated TIFF and JPG files.
Auto merge small strips within one page: This option can be used to merge lots of strips into a whole TIFF file, this option is useful for some PDF files which contain too much TIFF strips.
Export color images as JPG files: If your PDF file contain some color images, this option can be used to extract these color images and save to JPG files.
Remove thumbnail pictures: This option can be used to remove thumbnail pictures from the generated TIFF or JPG files.
Auto detect and rotate landscape pictures: Some pictures were rotated in the PDF file, this option will correct them automatically.
Auto detect and invert color for White&Black pictures: Some black and white pictures were inverted in the PDF file, this option will correct them automatically.
Auto scale pictures according to original page size: This option will auto scale the generated image's size to fit original paper size.
Vertical flip image files: This option will vertical flip the generated image files.
Horizontal flip image files: This option will horizontal flip the generated image files.

• Command Line
  
  To perform batch conversion or call conversion procedure from an automation script, you can use command line function in the PDFExtractTIFF software, You can either run this tool directly from command line or call it from any script as well. The program supports the following command-line options:
  
  In the following example the program converts Adobe PDF document "c:\input.pdf" into "c:\output.tif":
  
  Command line usage:
  
  PDFExtractTIFF v2.0: PDF files to TIFF files.
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  Usage: PDF2TIFF [options] <-i PDF File> [-o Output]
  -i [input PDF file] : Specify input PDF filename
  -o [output TIF file]: Specify output TIFF filename
  -m                  : Set output to multi-page TIFF file, the default is output to single page TIFF files
  -h                  : Horizontal flip image files
  -v                  : Vertical flip image files
  -j                  : Output color images to JPG files
  -r [0 or 1]         : Auto detect and rotate Landscape pages to Portrait pages
      -r 0            : Rotate 90 angle
      -r 1            : Rotate -90 angle
  -s                  : Auto scale image size according to original page size
  -x                  : Specify horizontal resolution in image files
  -y                  : Specify vertical resolution in image files
  -b                  : Auto detect and invert color for White&Black pictures
  -d                  : Remove thumbnail pictures
  -a                  : Auto merge small strips within one page
  -?                  : Help
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  Example:
      PDF2TIF -i C:\input.pdf -o C:\output.tif
      PDF2TIF -r 0 -i C:\input.pdf -o C:\output.tif
      PDF2TIF -s -b -d -i C:\input.pdf -o C:\output.tif
      PDF2TIF -m -i C:\input.pdf -o C:\output.tif
      PDF2TIF -m -x 300 -y 300 -r 1 -i C:\input.pdf -o C:\output.tif
  
  Please notice, if your input pdf's filename or output tiff's filename contain space(s), you must use quotation mark to include them, for example,
  
  C:\>PDF2TIF "C:\123 456.pdf"  "C:\my test\aaa.tif"
  

• Technical Support

If you have any technical questions, suggests, bug reports, please contact us at support.verypdf.com