Efficiently Convert a Document to an Image

One of the new features of the latest LEADTOOLS V19 update is a re-factored load algorithm, which has resulted in greatly reduced load times of documents formats such as PDF, MS-Office formats 97-2013 (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), and TXT. The increase in speed is directly related to the number of pages in the document; the more pages, the greater the increase of speed.

Below is a C# code snippet showing how to use the new feature with the new bits marked.

private static void ConvertDocumentToImage(
    string inputFile,
    string outputFile,
    RasterImageFormat outputFormat,
    int bitsPerPixel)
{
    if (!File.Exists(inputFile))
        throw new ArgumentException($"{inputFile} not found.", nameof(inputFile));

    if (bitsPerPixel != 0 && bitsPerPixel != 1 && bitsPerPixel != 2 && bitsPerPixel != 4 &&
        bitsPerPixel != 8 && bitsPerPixel != 16 && bitsPerPixel != 24 && bitsPerPixel != 32)
        throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(nameof(bitsPerPixel), bitsPerPixel, 
            $"Invalid {nameof(bitsPerPixel)} value");

    using (var codecs = new RasterCodecs())
    {
        codecs.Options.RasterizeDocument.Load.XResolution = 300;
        codecs.Options.RasterizeDocument.Load.YResolution = 300;

        // indicates the start of a loop from the same source file
        codecs.StartOptimizedLoad();

        var totalPages = codecs.GetTotalPages(inputFile);
        if (totalPages > 1 && !RasterCodecs.FormatSupportsMultipageSave(outputFormat))
            throw new NotSupportedException(
                $"The {outputFormat} format does not support multiple pages.");

        for (var pageNumber = 1; pageNumber 

Get the Code

Get a Visual Studio 2017 Windows Console project that includes the sample code from above to convert documents to TIFF. Download the project!