

I've tested it with a text scanned at 400 dpi, and the following command resulted in nice single JPGEs: $ convert -verbose -colorspace RGB -interlace none -density 400 -quality 100 yourPdfFile.pdf 00%d.jpeg You can feed convert with a PDf comprising multiple pages, and convert will return each page as single graphics file. Regarding step 1, you could use ImageMagick's convert command.

cbz or Comic Book Zip) and create the new archive. I then choose the archive format I prefer (in this case. Then I just use Archive Manager by selecting all the newly-created image files, right-clicking, and choosing "Compress" from the context menu. jpeg extensions successfully.jpg is apparently not supported.

pdf file with names like Sample-01.png, Sample-02.png and so on. This command creates an image file of each page in the same folder as the original. Or in the example above: pdftoppm -png Sample.pdf Sample The basic command looks like this: pdftoppm -FORMAT FILENAME.pdf PREFIX Several formats can be chosen (see the man pages link above) but I prefer to use. Let's say the file I want to edit is called Sample.pdf What I want to do is use pdftoppm to create image files of each page of the. I did this by using the sample command: cd ~/Documents/PDF pdf you wish to edit and open a terminal there. Since I am pretty much a layperson when it comes to using command line apps, I will do my best to explain how I got this to work for me. OK well, I did some more research and although tohuwawohu's method does work, I found it easier to use a program called pdftoppm to achieve what I wanted done.
