Converting pdf to image

I am looking for a quick and easy way to convert a pdf file into some type of image file. Preferably a jpeg, bitmap, or gif. I would prefer a free program but am willing to pay for a program if it is not to expensive. This program will be used in XP.

Thanks,
Adam

 

is the content text or image? would screen-capture do the job?

 

You can use some of those image printing software/utils.

 

I should have explained a little more on what this is for. My mom is going to use it to scan in recipes she finds in magazines and newspapers. The scanner she got will only output a PDF. She has been using some program to store the recipes for many years and in the past has always typed them all in. The program can import images instead of typing them in so that is why she got the scanner. A screen cap will not really work as many of these are going to be several pages long. The image printing thing may work if it’s what I think it is. Is it something similar to Cute PDF but outputs an image instead of PDF? Can some one recommend one?

Thanks,
Adam

 

There's probably special software to do this,
but you can probably import the PDF into some software and then export as image.
Or you could print the PDF to a virtual printer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_printer
the third bullet sounds like what you want.
You can try the "Microsoft XPS Document Writer" which generates XPS document files.
In Vista, "Windows Journal" has its own virtual printer if you want to try it.
Google helps too

 

Well I have a possible solution.

What you can do is go grab a free pdf reader called Foxit Reader.

It has a handy little camera snapshot tool that you can use to drag over the entire page and it copy's to it the clipboard, whatever you selected.

Then you can paste the contents of the clipboard into Paint or another image editing program and save it as whatever you would like.

I also understand the non-free Version of Adobe PDF also has this tool.

Here is an example of my result after using the snapshot tool, pasting into Paint, and saving it as a PNG file.



Anyways a quick google search netted all these programs to do what you ask. (Not Free)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pdf+to+image&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.download.com/PDF-To-Image-Converter/3000-2079_4-10322647.html

 

You need to print multi-page images, which can be done with TIFF's, I read somewhere? PDFcreator from sourceforge.net will output to many image formats, although I never use them.

I find it hard to believe that a scanner will only scan into PDF's...what scanner is it? I'm not saying your making this up, it's just something I've never encountered...

 

Acrobat Standard and Pro can both save as tiffs, which you can then convert to a jpg or png. Photoshop and The Gimp can both rasterize pdf's, and then save in any image format you want. The Gimp is free. Rasterizing in an image processor, in general, is typically of good quality but sometimes has formatting issues. I honestly don't know if there's a difference in procedure between rasterizing in Photoshop and rasterizing in Acrobat, but I've seen formatting issues in Photoshop but not yet in Acrobat.

 

this software is paying but its free for first time using until you uninstall
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-pdf-to-jpg-converter/

another choice but not free
http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html

 

Alright guys. Thanks for the help I will start looking at these.

Thanks,
Adam

 

Her scanner should be able to output something other than pdf's. What software is it using? What brand is it? That sounds like a completely useless scanner if it can't do anything other than one format. Take it back to the store and get a product that isn't made by a bunch of amateurs.