Processing Multi-image Tiffs
<h3 class="heading-h6"><a name="THLToolboxhomegtScanningampOCRgtProcessingMultiImageTIFFs" class="anchorpoint"></a><a href="/tools/wiki/home.html">THL Toolbox</a> > <a href="/tools/wiki/Scanning%20%26%20OCR.html">Scanning & OCR</a> > Processing Multi-Image TIFFs</h3><p class="paragraph">
</p><h3 class="heading-h1"><a name="ProcessingMultiImageTIFFsintoFileswithaSinglePagePerFile" class="anchorpoint"></a>Processing Multi-Image TIFFs into Files with a Single Page Per File</h3><p class="paragraph"><strong class="bold">Contributor(s)</strong>: Steve Weinberger</p><p class="paragraph">If you have a TIFF file consisting of multiple individual images (individual scans of multiple pages, for example) and you can't open the file with Photoshop:</p><ol><li>Open the tiff file in Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0 (for large files this will take some time).</li>
<li>Pull down the Acrobat menu and select Preferences.<ol><li>Under categories, click on Convert From PDF</li>
<li>Under Converting from PDF, click on JPEG</li>
<li>Click on the Edit Settings button</li>
<li>Under File Settings, pull down Grayscale and select JPEG (Quality: Maximum)</li>
<li>Under File Settings, pull down Color and select JPEG (Quality: Maximum)</li></ol>
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<li>Click on the “Picture Tasks” button and select Export Pictures.<ol><li>If in the toolbar the “Picture Tasks” button doesn’t display, click on the</li>
<li>“Pages” tab on the left side of the window. The Picture Tasks button will now appear in the toolbar.</li></ol>
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<li>In the dialogue box that opens<ol><li>Click on the Select All button</li>
<li>Drag the slider (image quality) all the way to the right</li></ol>
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<li>Under File Names, select Common Base Name, and type in the directory into which you want the individual files to go, with a dash (-) at the end. Example: MDo-32-32-<ol><li>Under Save In, click the Change button and select the directory you want the files to go.</li>
<li>Click on the Export button. Individual jpg files will be created for each page in the directory you specified.</li></ol></li></ol><p class="paragraph">
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