A good library for converting PDF to TIFF? [closed]

Answer 1

Disclaimer: I work for Atalasoft

We have an SDK that can convert PDF to TIFF. The rendering is powered by Foxit software which makes a very powerful and efficient PDF renderer.

Answer 2

we here also doing conversion PDF -> G3 tiffs with high and low res. From my experience the best tool you can have is Adobe PDF SDK, the only problem with it is its insane price. So we don't use it.

what works fine for us is ghostscript, last versions are pretty much robust and do render correctly majority of the pdfs. And we have quite a few of them coming during the day. In production conversion is done using the gsdll32.dll; but if you want to try it use the following command line:

gswin32c -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dMaxStripSize=8192 -sDEVICE=tiffg3 -r204x196 -dDITHERPPI=200 -sOutputFile=test.tif prefix.ps test.pdf

it would convert your PDF into the high res G3 TIFF. and prefix.ps code is here:

<< currentpagedevice /InputAttributes get
0 1 2 index length 1 sub {1 index exch undef } for
/InputAttributes exch dup 0 <</PageSize [0 0 612 1728]>> put
/Policies << /PageSize 3 >> >> setpagedevice

another thing about this sdk is that it's open source; you're getting both c and ps (postscript) source code for it. Also if you're going with another tool check what kind of an engine they have to power the pdf rendering, it could happen they are using gs for it; like for instance LeadTools does.

hope this helps, regards

Answer 3

No Itext can not convert PDFs to Tiff.

However, there are commercial libraries that can do that. jPDFImages is a 100% java library that can convert PDF to images in TIFF, JPEG or PNG formats (and maybe JBIG? I am not sure). It can also do the reverse, create PDF from images. It starts at $300 for a server.

Answer 4

You can use the icepdf library (Apache 2.0 License). They even provide this exact use case as one of their example source code: http://wiki.icesoft.org/display/PDF/Multi-page+Tiff+Capture

Answer 5

Take a look at Apache PDFBox - A Java PDF Library

Answer 6

I have some great experience with iText (now, I'm using 5.0.6 version) and this is the code for tiff convertion into pdf:

private static String convertTiff2Pdf(String tiff) {

    // target path PDF
    String pdf = null;

    try {

        pdf = tiff.substring(0, tiff.lastIndexOf('.') + 1) + "pdf";

        // New document A4 standard (LETTER)
        Document document = new Document(PageSize.LETTER, 0, 0, 0, 0);

        PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(pdf));
        int pages = 0;
        document.open();
        PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
        RandomAccessFileOrArray ra = null;
        int comps = 0;
        ra = new RandomAccessFileOrArray(tiff);
        comps = TiffImage.getNumberOfPages(ra);

        // Convertion statement
        for (int c = 0; c < comps; ++c) {
            Image img = TiffImage.getTiffImage(ra, c + 1);
            if (img != null) {
                System.out.println("page " + (c + 1));
                img.scalePercent(7200f / img.getDpiX(), 7200f / img.getDpiY());
                document.setPageSize(new Rectangle(img.getScaledWidth(), img.getScaledHeight()));
                img.setAbsolutePosition(0, 0);
                cb.addImage(img);
                document.newPage();
                ++pages;
            }
        }

        ra.close();
        document.close();

    } catch (Exception e) {
        logger.error("Convert fail");
        logger.debug("", e);
        pdf = null;
    }

    logger.debug("[" + tiff + "] -> [" + pdf + "] OK");
    return pdf;

}