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I'm looking for some information and methods for doing some file conversions for use in our automated OCR software. This software requires 300DPI multipage TIFF images. I can do the resizing but the file type conversion is a bit more difficult.

JPGs > MultiPage TIFF
TIFFs > MultiPage TIFF
PDF > MulitPage TIFF

You can convert multiple JPEG's, for example, into a multipage TIFF image with this command:

• convert *.jpg image.tif

Thanks - can you control the order?

And any body for the other two?

The order is what you giev to IM. If you use a *.jpg then the commandline shell expands this to list the files in alphabetical order.

Most shells will expand a {..,..} type syntax without resorting it.
as such {?,??,???,????}.jpg will expand to files of a single character
then two characters then three, and four. Within the lengths the files
are again sorted.

That is about the best I can do without knowing more about what files you are wanting to re-order.

Thanks for the help. The biggest part of my puzzle was loading GhostScript.