[mapserver-users] Converting PDF files to GeoTiff

[Rahkonen Jukka (Tike)]

Hi,

GDAL of course.

C:\data\temp>gdal_translate -of GTiff -co tiled=yes 
"ny_west point_140214_1941_62500_geo.pdf" geotiff_out.tif

Conversion takes a few seconds only.

-Jukka Rahkonen-

Mike Flannigan wrote:

> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> On 3/21/2014 8:53 AM, mapserver-users-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:21:30 +0000
> > From: "EVANS, JAMES R GS-13 USAF ACC 84 RADES/SCZE"
> > 	<james.evans.4 at us.af.mil>
> > To: "Rahkonen Jukka  (Tike)"<jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi>,
> > 	"'mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org'"
> > <mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
> > Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Processing JP2000 files
> > Message-ID:
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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