Extracting Individual Tiff Files From A Pdf
<h3 class="heading-h6"><a name="THLToolboxhomegtScanningampOCRgtExtractingIndividualTIFFFilesfromaPDF" class="anchorpoint"></a><a href="/tools/wiki/home.html">THL Toolbox</a> > <a href="/tools/wiki/Scanning%20%26%20OCR.html">Scanning & OCR</a> > Extracting Individual TIFF Files from a PDF</h3><p class="paragraph">
</p><h3 class="heading-h1"><a name="ExtractingIndividualTIFFFilesfromaPDF" class="anchorpoint"></a>Extracting Individual TIFF Files from a PDF</h3><p class="paragraph"><strong class="bold">Contributor(s)</strong>: Christopher Bell</p><p class="paragraph">In order to extract the individual images that make up a single PDF and save them as TIFF files, do the following:</p><ol><li>Open the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0 (for large files this will take some time).</li>
<li>Pull down the Edit menu and select Preferences.</li>
<li>Under Categories, click on Convert From PDF.</li>
<li>Under Converting from PDF, click on TIFF.</li>
<li>Click on the Edit Settings button.</li>
<li>Under File Settings, pull down Monochrome and select LZW.</li>
<li>Under File Settings, pull down Grayscale and select LZW.</li>
<li>Under File Settings, pull down Color and select LZW.</li>
<li>Press Okay to close out the "Save As TIFF Settings" dialog box.</li>
<li>Press Okay to close out the "Preferences" dialog box.</li>
<li>Pull down the File menu and select Save As.</li>
<li>Type in a desired file name (the PDF file name will already be entered by default. If this is not desired then follow appropriate THL file naming conventions).</li>
<li>In the "Save as type" drop box, select: TIFF (*.tif,*.tiff).</li>
<li>Chose an appropriate folder in which to save all the extracted TIFF files.</li>
<li>Press Save.</li></ol><p class="paragraph">Adobe Acrobat will spend a few minutes saving every page of the document as a TIFF file in the chosen folder. It will further order them correctly by adding a basic numbering convention to the end of the file name provided; i.e., filename_Page_001. For a 600-page PDF file, it should take 5-7 minutes for the individual images to be extracted.</p>