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

Answer 1

I can't recommend any code library, but it's easy to use GhostScript to convert PDF into bitmap formats. I've personally used the script below (which also uses the netpbm utilties) to convert the first page of a PDF into a JPEG thumbnail:

#!/bin/sh

/opt/local/bin/gs -q -dLastPage=1 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -r300 \
    -sDEVICE=pnmraw -sOutputFile=- $* |
    pnmcrop |
    pnmscale -width 240 |
    cjpeg

You can use -sDEVICE=tiff... to get direct TIFF output in various TIFF sub-formats from GhostScript.

Answer 2

Here is a good article and wrapper classes for using GhostScript with C# .NET...ended up using this in production

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/GhostScriptUseWithCSharp.aspx

Answer 3

Maybe it is not neccessary to convert the PDF into TIFF. The fax will most likely be an embedded image in the PDF, so you could just extract these images again. That should be possible with the already mentioned iText library.

I don't know if this is easier than the other approach.