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Converting .pdf to .jpg or .jpeg?
Thanatos
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Is there a free program I can download that will allow me to do a right-click conversion from .pdf to .jpg or .jpeg?
I have a lot of single-page documents that I want to convert to .jpg for two reasons:
1. .jpg is way smaller than .pdf.
2. Windows does that thing where it will automatically let you page through .jpgs in a folder with a single click in the image viewer.
Any suggestions?
I have a lot of single-page documents that I want to convert to .jpg for two reasons:
1. .jpg is way smaller than .pdf.
2. Windows does that thing where it will automatically let you page through .jpgs in a folder with a single click in the image viewer.
Any suggestions?
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the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Virtual Image Printer driver. You should be able to easily batch up the entire directory of PDF files, set your default printer to that, and you're off.
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I don't have the files right now. I'm going to be getting the files one at a time over the term of my employment (they are invoices, specifically). I'm trying to make it so that I can just give my physical copies to the accounting person, and stop having to make and keep physical copies of invoices myself. They're pretty much always single-page, and instead of copying them, I want to just scan them, then save them as a .jpg, or be able to save them as a .pdf and do a simple right-click conversion to .jpg. I was hoping for a free program that could do this. I already have PDF Converter, but that just converts to Office or text documents.
Given that situation, is there anything stopping you from simply scanning them straight to .JPG/.TIF/.etc? It seems like this should be an option in every scanner's software.
I'm just wondering where .PDF comes into this.
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Edit: Alternatively, if you have access to Linux (or maybe Cygwin has converted these tools for Windows use?) there are command line programs pdf2ppm and ppmtojpeg that would accomplish this. Or ImageMagick seems to do it. I'm not sure if that will do a context menu option to convert or not, but with a bit of work you could set up a batch command to convert, and create your own context menu option for PDF files.
I think I'd rather just leave it in .pdf. :P
Acrobat does not seem to do it (I have the latest Reader, and Standard 6.0; neither will do it). I do not have access to Linux, and even if I did, it wouldn't be worth the trouble to have it just for doing this a couple of times a day.
And I was hoping someone could suggest an actual program that they've used and know is good, rather than me just going with the first thing I see on Google.
Yeah... I removed the first one I had linked to after taking another quick look at it. Buy ImageMagick is great and can do conversions between many different types of images. With the command line script it would likely be something like
convert myfile.pdf myfile.jpg
With a bit of work it could be put into a batch file and added to the right click menu for PDF files.
Edit: Hmm... this page says it's excerpted from a book about Acrobat 6 and shows a Save As JPG option (unless of course it's only available in 6 Pro version... bah... stupid different versions). You're sure it's not there in yours, because given that you already have Acrobat, that would likely be the easiest solution.
No, you're right, but the reason it's so big is that it's trying to give you a high-resolution image. You'll likely have a way, way easier time batch-converting TIFF into JPG than PDF-to-JPG. Just watch out for compression artifacts, since you're dealing with financial statements and small text most likely.
I haven't actually done that myself, so YMMV on the results. Best I can suggest is to Google for a general image convertor and pick one that points to SourceForge. It's the most likely to be command-line/script friendly, and of course free both in cost and from teh spywarez.
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As far as I know you have to open the file to do it, but once you do you just hit 'f' to open the convert menu. It remembers your last settings, and you can choose a custom resolution, so if you're doing the same thing every time it might work.
Alternatively you could set up some kind of Ghostscript batch file that you run every time you get one of those files? Does essentially the same as the above program since GSView uses GhostScript.
I have never used this exact program before, but you can use this (or a similar program) to set up a "right click to jpg". It will just be a few more clicks than just right click and click appropriate context menu choice.
If the linked program works how the image printer on my work computer works, you can just download it. Install it and set it as your default. Then right click on the image you want to print, click print, then choose filename, filetype and location, and hit print/save. Then close adobe and you are done.
gswin32c -sDEVICE=jpeg -o <in.pdf> <out.jpg>
where the stuff in angle brackets are your input and output file names. The batch script would pass those in to GhostScript as variables. I'm not super hip to batch script syntax, but you can create a For loop construct which should be able to iterate over any pdf files in the folder, and make a jpg (tiff if you change the -sDEVICE argument to one of the tiff output types) and then remove the old pdf files.
From then its just a matter of dropping any stuff you want converted, clicking on the script and scooping up your output.
Using GSView would probably be easier though if you're doing them piecemeal. If it is sent to you via email, just right click on it to open it in GSview instead of Adobe, then mash 'f', then hit enter (for any time after the first. On the first you'd need to select jpeg as the output type, and set the resoltion) then it'll just ask you where to save it. Which again, should be whatever the last folder it saved to is. It's pretty good about remembering these things.
Are you sure I can't just tell you where to obtain the latest Photoshop and Illustrator? Totally legit, in no way unethical and by that I mean 100% illegal.
That is correct, TIFs are uncompressed.
That said, it is going to be MUCH easier to find a free tool to convert TIF-JPG than PDF-JPG.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Go to -> www.irfanview.com and download the latest version plus the plugin pack.
Then go to -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/ - download and install it.
Now all you do is open your PDF in Irfanview and do a Save As to whatever your heart desires. IrfanView also has the capability to do batch converting/naming/yomamma and lets you adjust just about anything you want.
http://www.gimp.org/
This seems to work okay.
I wouldn't say it's a done deal solution, as it's not ideal, but certainly good enough.
Any easy way to get .html files to print to .jpg?
I am not sure about the .html file to be honest.
I am not sure you are easily going to find an ideal right click solution. I think it may be out there, but it may not.
From the description of the situation you gave, you are only receiving one at a time. If you are not editing the documents with Acrobat or something else, then you could easily just associate the .pdf extension with IrfanView. Double-click and off you go.
I think I'd rather use Paint. I'm not even sure that this computer will run GIMP.
I'm doing what I can to turn my little corner of the office paperless, so I don't have quite as much fucking stuff lying around.
Yeah, you wouldn't want to associate that extension if that is the case. I use the irfanview/ghostscript solution myself. A newer version of Acrobat may have the functionality built in, but as you know that costs $$.
You could basically write a batch to process a directory...
It requires some basic syntax and some light scripting elements.
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/
Open PDF: Press Alt+Print Screen
Open Paint
Paste
Crop as necessary.
Save in format of choice.
/thread. This has all the info you need.
PSN - sumowot
1. This isn't automatically true. It depends on the content. Even if it's 100% bitmap data, PDF can use Jpeg compression instead of ZIP anyway. Sure, you get the PDF junk as well, but depending on what you use to create the Jpeg you get a lot of junk with that format as well so it can end up all much of a muchness unless you are using high-end software that can properly optimise your files.
2. Is there seriously no PDF viewer that will give you similar functionality?
I feel like this problem is being approached backwards. I don't have a whole lot of love for PDF but in this situation, I think you're making things more difficult than they need to be by insisting on a file format that really isn't ideally suited to the type of files you're working with to begin with. Instead of 'Help me find a free program that will easily let me convert PDF to Jpeg' maybe a more effective solution could be found with the question 'Help me find a free PDF viewer that will let me easily browse a folder full of PDFs'?
If nothing else, such a program should it exist would save you countless hours a year of unnecessary batch file converting.
Single user license is $65. We use it at work frequently.
Although the Irfanview solution is probably the easiest. I don't believe I've ever seen the functionality that you are requesting (right-click, convert to jpg).
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TIFs can have all kinds of compression. His scanner may send them uncompressed, but it may be possible to set it to use Group4 compression or something. We use TIFFG4 here for our parts order software for the schematic images, and even the most complicated line drawings top out at about 70kB
If you cannot adjust the DPI and you want a very automated way of converting a directory of PDFs into a directory of JPGs, the ImageMagick that someone in the thread mentioned is available for Windows, and the convert.exe portion of that can make JPG out of PDF. There would need to be a bit of Batch File writing and perhaps setting a scheduled task in Windows if you wanted to make it automatic, though. Here is the commandline you would probably want to use:
As for that batch file, where would I stick it? Scheduled tasks? That would be really nice.
If you need to provide filenames to convert (no wildcard support), then you will need your batch file to have a For loop. See c:\windows\help\ntcmds.chm for syntax on batch file commands.
Once you have a batch file that works, you could stick it on your desktop and click as needed, or you could stick it in a folder somewhere and create a scheduled task to call it. See C:\windows\help\mstask.chm for more info on Scheduled Tasks.
Yup. Scheduled Tasks.You're going to have to get creative with that batch file though in order to not continue duplicating the same pdfs over and over into jpgs. You'll probably need to start it hunting through folders labelled by date, then have it retrieve and open a folder based on the system date and run convert on all the images within that folder. That would still require you to create folders for every day and throw the pdfs inside. Yuck. More work than before.
Maybe you could create a seperate process to rename all files to FILENAME-CONVERTED.PDF once they've been completed, then exclude any filenames contained -CONVERTED?
PSN - sumowot
If you can adjust the DPI on the scanner/copier, then you just need something that lets you browse a folder of TIF files. There should be countless applications suited to this purpose. I've used ACDSee 2.43 for YEARS. It would be perfect for your use-case, but I never tried the new versions which I'm sure are overladen with bells and whistles not pertaining to being a super fast image viewer that understands practically all file formats.
I'm mildly retarded when it comes to batch files, so instead of trying to get the iteration/wildcards working inside the batch file what I'd do is write a simple python script that creates a batch file to run - the python script would scan the directory and write a convert command to the batch file for each pdf it finds, and then call the resulting batch file. It'd then remove the batch file when it's done. Just a thought if you know some python.
I would assume that he does not have Python, however. In the Windows world, it is rare to find people who have a scripting runtime installed. And if he wanted a scripting runtime, but is not a programmer by trade, then I would point him toward AutoIT.
You're right. Python can do shell calls, so that would work. I guess the point of the batch file intermediary would be to prevent a bunch of command windows popping up (one for each convert call) - it would only pop one up, and it would close when it's done.
AutoIT looks pretty cool. I will have to remember that.
Ok. </tangent>.