Command-line tool

ghostscript

brew/ghostscript

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Interpreter for PostScript and PDF

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install ghostscript

Linux

brew install ghostscript

View a file

gs -dQUIET -dBATCH file.pdf

Reduce PDF file size to 150 dpi images for reading on an e-book device

gs -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

Convert PDF file (pages 1 through 3) to an image with 150 dpi resolution

gs -dQUIET -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=jpeg -r150 -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=3 -sOutputFile=output_%d.jpg input.pdf

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