QUESTION :
I thought Adobe Photoshop could do everything, but apparently it cannot read multipage TIFF files.
I have a TIFF file with four pages, and I need to edit one of the pages. Windows Picture Viewer can print all four pages, but cannot split them. Anyone know how I can split the original TIFF into four separate images suitable for editing?
The Google search for “free tiff splitter windows” returns lots of suspicious looking downloads.
ANSWER :
The King of image transformation software is Image Magick. You can use this to do most image translations / conversions, and it’s a respected (and therefore as safe) as these things can be.
It’s a command line tool, but more powerful for that. At a command prompt, simply type …
convert multipage.tif single%d.tif
to create multiple tif files.
On Windows, you must add magick to beginning of the command:
magick convert multipage.tif single%d.tif
There is a free Tiff Splitter:
A simple WinForms app that opens a multi-page tiff file and saves all pages as individual tiff files. The input file can be selected through file browsing, or drag-and-dropped from
the File Explorer.Requires .NET 4.0 / Tested on Windows 7
Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) can split a TIFF using the Page>Move pages to a new file option (select pages you want to split out from the original file first).
MODI is installed as part of Office 2003, and although I believe a version was included with office XP/2002, I think it was an optional install and may not have the TIFF writer necessary to carry out this task (can’t test here, sorry!).
You can use irfanview, the swiss-army imaging knife for windows. See this thread
i_view32.exe c:multipage.tif /extract=(c:temp,jpg)