[Ohiodig] Advice on Multi-Page TIFFs

[John Dewees]

Thanks so much for all the advice everyone! Got a number of new workflows
to test now.

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:24 PM Phil Sager <psager at ohiohistory.org> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
>
> We often use the free tools from Fastone http://www.faststone.org/,
> especially the batch image resizer. However, their Image Viewer is also
> quite nice, GUI-based, and has a "Multi-page splitter" feature under
> "Create".
>
> Phil
>
>
> Phil Sager | Digital Projects Developer
> Ohio History Connection | 800 E. 17th Ave. Columbus, Ohio 43211
> p. 614.297.2577 | f. 614.297.2546  | psager at ohiohistory.org
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> *From:* ohiodig-bounces at lists.library.ohio.gov <
> ohiodig-bounces at lists.library.ohio.gov> on behalf of Eugene Rutigliano <
> earutigl at owu.edu>
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 7, 2018 11:41:57 AM
> *To:* Newman, Linda (newmanld)
> *Cc:* ohiodig at lists.library.ohio.gov
> *Subject:* Re: [Ohiodig] Advice on Multi-Page TIFFs
>
> Seconding Linda's suggestion.  It's an extremely robust (and free) image
> conversion and editing program with a lot of community support.  It
> operates via command line and the site includes an extensive tutorial about
> how to use it.  I think the 'convert' command should allow you to split
> multi-page TIFFs into separate files.  I've used it to split GIFs into the
> component images like this:
>
> convert image.gif output%d.gif
>
> with %d numbering the output images in order of their sequence in the
> original file.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Eugene
>
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Newman, Linda (newmanld) <
> NEWMANLD at ucmail.uc.edu> wrote:
>
> John – I haven’t used this command with Image Magick, but I found
> reference here that there’s a simple convert option from the command line
> (I think the windows shell or in Unix/Linux).  I would assume it would
> work with an entire directory of multi-page tifs.  Maybe someone else on
> this thread has used Image Magick for this purpose?
>
>
>
>
> https://superuser.com/questions/44600/how-to-split-a-multipage-tiff-file-on-windows
>
> https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=31436
>
>
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>
> -- Linda
>
>
>
> *From:* ohiodig-bounces at lists.library.ohio.gov <
> ohiodig-bounces at lists.library.ohio.gov> *On Behalf Of *John Dewees
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 07, 2018 10:36 AM
> *To:* ohiodig at lists.library.ohio.gov
> *Subject:* [Ohiodig] Advice on Multi-Page TIFFs
>
>
>
> Hello OhioDIG,
>
>
>
> I was wondering if anyone had any experience working with multi-page TIFF
> images, specifically any utilities that can be used to break them apart in
> to individual TIFF images in a batch process. I've found some utilities
> online but they generally seem like sketchy shareware and I was hoping
> someone knew about utilities that wouldn't ruin my library's computer
> network. Any advice would be appreciated!
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Dewees
>
> Toledo Lucas County Public Library
>
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