Using Acrobat X Professional, I'm trying to convert a multi-page PDF into several TIFF files - i.e. each page of the PDF is converted into a TIFF (for example, a PDF with 50 pages would result in 50 TIFFs).
I have created an action so that I can eventually process batches of PDFs. My action has two steps:
1) Flatten layers
2) Export all images as TIFF
- files are being exported to a folder on a network drive
- files settings are: Monochrome = CCITT G4 / Grayscale = LZW / Color = LZW
- color management: RGB = off / CMYK = off / Grayscale = off
- conversion: colorspace: determine automatically / resolution: 300 pixels/inch
- extraction: exclude images smaller than: no limit
My PDF is searchable (OCR has been applied). I have checked the file to see if it has any layers - it doesn't. The file was originally created with InDesign.
Basically, after the action has run there are multiple TIFF files exported for each page - and when I open the TIFFs they are sections of each PDF page. For example, if a single PDF page has three images on it then three TIFFs are exported for each image instead of one TIFF that is identical to the single PDF page. So, when I try to process a PDF with 50 pages what I end up with is a folder with 150 TIFF files (as opposed to 50 TIFF files - one TIFF for each page of the PDF).
Here is an example of how the files are renamed as a result of the export:
- HD_08_Issue2_E_Page_02_Image_0001.tif
- HD_08_Issue2_E_Page_02_Image_0002.tif
- HD_08_Issue2_E_Page_02_Image_0003.tif
- HD_08_Issue2_E_Page_02_Image_0004.tif
- HD_08_Issue2_E_Page_02_Image_0005.tif
I tried using the action on a PDF that had not been OCR'ed and I didn't have this problem. The only thing that I can think of is that it's the OCR that is causing each page of the PDF to split into many images? The majority of the files that I need to convert from PDF to TIFF have had OCR applied.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!