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Convert PDF to Grayscale using ghostscript
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Install ghostscript from yout terminal : sudo apt install ghostscript, then create file, for example pdf2gray.sh and copy paste the script bellow. Add execution access using chmod +x pdf2gray.sh

#!/bin/bash

gs \
 -sOutputFile=$2 \
 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
 -sColorConversionStrategy=Gray \
 -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceGray \
 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 \
 -dNOPAUSE \
 -dBATCH \
 $1
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