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Extracting Individual TIFF Files from a PDF

Contributor(s): Christopher Bell

In order to extract the individual images that make up a single PDF and save them as TIFF files, do the following:

1. Open the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0 (for large files this will take some time).
2. Pull down the Edit menu and select Preferences.
3. Under Categories, click on Convert From PDF.
4. Under Converting from PDF, click on TIFF.
5. Click on the Edit Settings button.
6. Under File Settings, pull down Monochrome and select LZW.
7. Under File Settings, pull down Grayscale and select LZW.
8. Under File Settings, pull down Color and select LZW.
9. Press Okay to close out the "Save As TIFF Settings" dialog box.
10. Press Okay to close out the "Preferences" dialog box.
11. Pull down the File menu and select Save As.
12. 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).
13. In the "Save as type" drop box, select: TIFF (*.tif,*.tiff).
14. Chose an appropriate folder in which to save all the extracted TIFF files.
15. Press Save.

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.