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Break down PDF document pages into multiple JPEG/PNG images
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To convert pdf to image files use following commands:

For PNG gs -sDEVICE=png16m -dTextAlphaBits=4 -r300 -o a.png a.pdf

For JPG gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -dTextAlphaBits=4 -r300 -o a.jpg a.pdf

If you have multiple pages add to name %03d gs -o a%03d.jpg a.pdf

gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -dTextAlphaBits=4 -r300 -o a%03d.jpg a.pdf

What each option means:

sDEVICE={jpeg,pngalpha,png16m...} - filetype

-o - output file (%stdout to stdout)

-dTextAlphaBits=4 - font antialiasing.

-r300 - 300 dpi

Taken from https://stackoverflow.com/a/33528730/1700479
Credits: https://stackoverflow.com/users/4355809/yanpas and https://stackoverflow.com/users/390722/startupguy

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