pdftoppm

Convert PDF document pages to portable Pixmap (image formats). More information: https://manned.org/pdftoppm.

• Specify the range of pages to convert (N-first page, M-last page):

pdftoppm -f N -l M path/to/file.pdf image_name_prefix

• Convert only the first page of a PDF:

pdftoppm -singlefile path/to/file.pdf image_name_prefix

• Generate a monochrome PBM file (instead of a color PPM file):

pdftoppm -mono path/to/file.pdf image_name_prefix

• Generate a grayscale PGM file (instead of a color PPM file):

pdftoppm -gray path/to/file.pdf image_name_prefix

• Generate a PNG file instead a PPM file:

pdftoppm -png path/to/file.pdf image_name_prefix