Executing Preview from a command line

Colleagues,
I have multi-page PDF documents (created with R [R-project.org]) from which I convert a single page to TIFF. Is there some means to execute this from a command line? Presumably, I would need arguments for (at least) input file name, output format, and pages.
Any help would be appreciated.
Dennis

I've used it extract pict bitmaps from pdf screen shots in 10.3.9:
<pre style="border: 1px solid #ddd; padding-left: .75ex; padding-top: .25em; padding-bottom: .25em; margin-top: .5em; margin-bottom: .5em; margin-left: 1ex; max-width: 60ex; overflow: auto; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: #444; background: #eee; line-height: normal">sips -s format pict picture.pdf -o picture.pct</pre>
But in my case I think the pict is embedded in the pdf.
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