{"id":1740,"date":"2014-09-10T00:26:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T07:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ephesoft.com\/docs\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2020-08-31T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T17:01:18","slug":"ghostscript-pdf-to-tiff-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ephesoft.com\/docs\/ghostscript-pdf-to-tiff-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Convert PDF to TIF Using Ghostscript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333\"><strong>Applies to<\/strong>: All versions of Ephesoft Transact<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ephesoft uses Ghostscript to convert PDFs to single-page TIF files for machine learning and image testing. You can run Ghostscript from the command line by performing the following steps.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Navigate to [<em>Ephesoft_Directory<\/em>]\\dependencies\\gs\\bin <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">(If your system is 32 bit navigate to [<em>Ephesoft_Directory<\/em>]\\dependencies\\gs32bit\\bin).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Determine which version of Ghostscript you will use:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>64bit<\/strong>: gswin64<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>64bit<\/strong>: gswin64c<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>32bit<\/strong>: gswin32<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>32bit<\/strong>: gswin32c<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Open the command prompt as administrator and enter the following command:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em><strong>[Ephesoft_Directory]<\/strong><\/em>\\Dependencies\\gs\\bin\\gswin64c.exe -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sDEVICE=tiffscaled24 -sCompression=lzw -dBATCH -sOutputFile=\"<em><strong>&lt;output_tiff_filename&gt;<\/strong><\/em>-04%d.tif\" \"<em><strong>&lt;input_pdf_file_path&gt;<\/strong><\/em>\"&gt;result.txt<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">After executing the command, files are sent to the folder specified for output. 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