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by MWL001
2014-02-05T13:23:28-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: convert - pdf to tiff for reading barcodes
Replies: 6
Views: 5452

Re: convert - pdf to tiff for reading barcodes

After some trial and error, here is the list of options that produced the best results for me (in case someone else ever has a similar request):

convert -density 200x200 -contrast -adaptive-sharpen 0x.6 -colorspace gray -colors 2 +dither -type bilevel file.pdf file.tiff

This combination seemed to ...
by MWL001
2014-01-24T16:44:31-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: convert - pdf to tiff for reading barcodes
Replies: 6
Views: 5452

Re: convert - pdf to tiff for reading barcodes

snibgo, looks like imgur.com comverted my original pdf file to a png and compressed the image quite a bit.

The original pdf is scanned in at 200 dpi.

Let's try this again...
http://www.mediafire.com/view/2p6im53sghp558s/testBarcodes.pdf

I checked the file after it had been uploaded this time...it ...
by MWL001
2014-01-24T14:30:02-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: convert - pdf to tiff for reading barcodes
Replies: 6
Views: 5452

convert - pdf to tiff for reading barcodes

Hello,

First time posting on the ImageMagick forum.

Here is the scenario:
Most documents in our office have a barcode on them.

We have software that can read barcodes in tiff images.

We want to scan the documents into our server as pdf files and use convert to generate a tiff copy for the ...