Converting .PDF image to .JPG?
June 23, 2010 8:25 PM   Subscribe

I need to convert a number of .PDF image files to .JPG. Any suggestions (software or otherwise, Windows) appreciated.
posted by BozoBurgerBonanza to Computers & Internet (10 answers total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
IrfanView + the plugin pack + GhostScript will save PDFs to JPG or any other image type it supports, and has batch conversion.
posted by smackfu at 8:31 PM on June 23, 2010 [1 favorite]


ImageMagick does this too. See here. This is for thumbnails, but should be adaptable to the entire thing (remove the [0] I think).
posted by yeahwhatever at 8:41 PM on June 23, 2010


I've done this with GIMP. You can open the pdf within GIMP and it will give you the option to choose which pages you want to convert, the size, resolution, and whether to open them as layers or as individual images. It will then import the pdf pages as images that you'll need to save as jpegs.
posted by Eumachia L F at 2:36 AM on June 24, 2010


Best answer: You can do this very simply and easily using the website zamzar.com. Easy peasy!
posted by eb98jdb at 3:14 AM on June 24, 2010


pdfimages, part of the Xpdf suite, will extract all images embedded in a PDF. With the right option, it will extract JPEGs intact.
posted by scruss at 4:44 AM on June 24, 2010


Do it the "traditional way":

1. open a PDF file with Acrobat

2. make a screen shot (with the PrintScreen key)

3. open Paint

4. paste the screen shot

5. save as JPEG

6. rince, repeat.

(no kidding: that's what most people would do)
posted by knz at 6:03 AM on June 24, 2010


If you have the professional version of Adobe Acrobat, it will allow you to save as a jpeg.
posted by Eicats at 8:52 AM on June 24, 2010


p.s. the screen shot method is low resolution; depending on your purpose, you probably want a software resave option instead
posted by Eicats at 8:54 AM on June 24, 2010


Response by poster: Thanks for all the suggestions. Don't know what I'll eventually end up using, but it's nice to have a choice.
posted by BozoBurgerBonanza at 8:11 PM on June 24, 2010


Response by poster: Zamzar worked great. Thanks eb98jdb!
posted by BozoBurgerBonanza at 8:09 PM on June 25, 2010


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