: Best way to convert multipage pdf to separate jpg's What is considered the best way to convert a multipage PDF into single page JPG's with photoshop CS3? I'm looking for a (semi) automated

@Berumen635

Open Adobe Acrobat Pro and open your multipage PDF
Next, select all (Ctrl + A) the pages in the page thumbnail pane
Finally, click File → Save As → Image → JPEG, choose your settings and save.

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@Berryessa866

If you are on windows, you can do this with PDF-XChange Viewer (http://www.tracker-software.com/product/downloads).

File - Export - Export to Image...

Advantages over the other solutions:


You can specify a subset (Odd pages or Even pages)
You can choose all important file formats
You can add not only page number into the filename but also the date and time
You can specify a range (e.g. from page 45 - 123)

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@Debbie163

I know you asked about Phosothop, but with ImageMagick:

$ convert output.pdf pages.jpg


will produce pages-0.jpg, pages-1.jpg, ..., pages-n.jpg.

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@Gretchen549

I know you asked about Photoshop but... If you have a Mac this is very easy to do using Automator. You just need three actions:


Ask for finder items
Render PDF pages as images
Move finder items


You can even select the color model, format (12 available), resolution and compression quality. Just to test it out, I converted a PDF file I have here with 207 pages:

Using "600dpi/RGB/best quality possible" it took an hour to convert to JPEG.
Using "300dpi/RGB/60% quality" it took about 5 minutes to convert to JPEG.
(My laptop have a Core 2 Duo 2.26Ghz)

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@Speyer780

There doesn't seem to be a well working default solution available. But the solution is actually quite easy.

To do this, we will need to create our own photoshop action.


Open up a sample image (or the first image of your PDF)
Bring up your "Actions" menu
Create a new action. Name it "Save to JPG"
Save your sample image, as a JPG in a certain folder.
Close your image.
Stop recording the action.
Open up your multiple page PDF file (you select which pages to open; each page will open as its own image. Note: If you want 1 pdf, then select only 1 pdf. If you want all of them, then hold Shift and select the ones you want to open in Photoshop. This will open all the pdf pages as Photoshop files in the program.).
File -> Automate -> Batch
Under "Action" your "Save to JPG" action should be there, select it.
As your source, select "Opened Files"
Set your destination folder
Press OK.


This should save all open files as JPGs and then close the files.
(for better performance I would suggest doing 25-50 pages at a time instead of all 150)

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@Speyer780

Maybe in Acrobat you extract single pages (under Document→ Extract Pages, you can do all of them, or a range), and then use an Action in Photoshop to Open→ Save as JPG → close, and Batch all the files.

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