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Hello there,

I am having difficulty preserving the text when I convert from a color PDF to a black and white TIFF. I also would like to keep the file size at a minimum.

I have tried the following commands:

convert in.pdf -density 300 -monochrome out.pdf > gives 1bpp but text is not preserved
convert in.pdf -density 300 -colorspace gray out.pdf > gives 8pp but text is a bit more readable

I would like to have a TIFF that is 1 bpp. Thanks in advance for your time and help.

Try using eitheror for a more automatic method See Two Color Quantization in IM Examples....
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/quantize/#colors_two