[mapserver-users] Converting PDF files to GeoTiff

[EVANS, JAMES R GS-13 USAF ACC 84 RADES/SCZE]

Hi Mike,
I have GM 15.  If you send me a couple of your .PDFs I could benchmark
converting them with GM.  GM is good at tiling, if you want the output
broken up, or put in a pyramid.
James


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Flannigan [mailto:mikeflan at att.net] 
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 9:06 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Cc: EVANS, JAMES R GS-13 USAF ACC 84 RADES/SCZE; jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi
Subject: Converting PDF files to GeoTiff


On a perhaps related subject, I was wondering if there was a preferred way
to convert PDF map files to georeferenced GeoTiffs?  I have thousands (many
thousands) of these to convert.

The tools I would like to use in order of preference are:
Perl
QGIS
Any open source software
Global Mapper


I am on Win7.

Here is an example of a file I want to convert:
http://www.mflan.com/temp/ny_west point_140214_1941_62500_geo.pdf

I am also not adverse to downloading the entire country (USA) of GeoTiff 15
minute topos if they exist somewhere, but I have not found a location that
serves them up for free.


Mike
Houston, TX


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> Hi Jukka,
> I have Global Mapper, and used it to do a batch convert to geotiff on a
test set of images.  The converted files work fine with the OpenJPEG drive,
but the size almost doubles and on my 10 year old pc at home it takes about
3 minutes per file to convert.  I will look at all the options you mentioned
below.
> Thanks!
> James

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