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Tag: ImageMagick

Removing unwanted grey values in scanning white papers

When doing automated scanning, like I do to for properly organizing paper administration, the resulting images can get quite large because the background has near-white information that is still very complex to save. Imagemagick has nice solution for that; -white-threshold x%. It also has -black-threshold, should it be necessary.

ImageMagick can convert PDF to anything

I encountered one of those scans which was shared as a single-page PDF. I don’t want it that way, because I want to include it in a web page. I want a simple bitmap image. ImageMagick comes to the rescue:

convert scan.pdf scan.jpg

If the resolution this produces is too low for you, try telling Ghostscript (which ImageMagick uses internally) that you want a different density:

convert -density 300 scan.pdf scan.jpg

Attribution

Googling linux pdf to jpg produced two useful results:

  1. Batch converting PDF to JPG/JPEG using free software
  2. Converting PDF to PNG/JPG using ImageMagick in Linux

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