Batch processing PDF to TIFF

Question

Hello,
I have about 1000 drawings in PDF format that I need to convert to B/W TIFF files. I thought I could easily do this in Photoshop (CS3) and then I hit a snag. In the Open form for the PDF there is a field to enter for the filename (I think that's because of multisheet PDFs). In my case all the PDFs have been reduced to single sheets, so I want the name to be that of the PDF file. Creating an action captures the "name", but this conflicts with the options when running in batch mode. I either have the same name from the action, or no name (or the same name) from batch options. Anyone know how to get around the naming options? Or do this a different way?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Try the following it should produce a folder full of 300dpi Grayscale tiff based on your pdfs
var pdfOpenOptions = new PDFOpenOptions
pdfOpenOptions.antiAlias = true
pdfOpenOptions.cropPage = CropToType.MEDIABOX
pdfOpenOptions.mode = OpenDocumentMode.GRAYSCALE
pdfOpenOptions.resolution = 300
pdfOpenOptions.suppressWarnings=true
#target Photoshop
app.bringToFront;
var inFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Please select folder to process");
if(inFolder != null){
var fileList = inFolder.getFiles(/\.(pdf)$/i);
var outfolder = new Folder(decodeURI(inFolder) + "/Edited");
if (outfolder.exists == false) outfolder.create();
for(var a = 0 ;a < fileList.length; a++){
if(fileList[a] instanceof File){
var doc= open(fileList[a],pdfOpenOptions);
var docname = fileList[a].name.slice(0,-4);
while(app.documents.length){
var saveFile = new File(decodeURI(outfolder) + "/" + docname + ".tif");
SaveTiff(saveFile);
activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES) ;
function SaveTiff(saveFile)
    tiffSaveOptions = new TiffSaveOptions();
tiffSaveOptions.embedColorProfile = false;
tiffSaveOptions.imageCompression=TIFFEncoding.TIFFLZW
activeDocument.saveAs(saveFile, tiffSaveOptions, true,Extension.LOWERCASE);