Converting PDF to TIFF (10.3) using ArcPy

New at 10.3, is a handy tool many of us in the GIS world have wanted for a long time.  That is converting geo-referenced PDFs to Tiff files.
The help describes this tool as:

Exports an existing PDF file to a Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). If the PDF has georeference information, the TIFF can be a GeoTIFF. These TIFFs can be used as a source for heads-up digitizing and viewing in ArcMap. Both GeoPDF and ISO standards of georeferenced PDFs are supported. 

It is very straight forward to use:

import arcpy
arcpy.PDFToTIFF_conversion(in_pdf_file="C:/temp/sample.pdf", 
                           out_tiff_file="C:/temp/sample.tif", 
                           pdf_password="", 
                           pdf_page_number="1", 
                           pdf_map="Layers", 
                           clip_option="NO_CLIP", 
                           resolution="250", 
                           color_mode="RGB_TRUE_COLOR", 
                           tiff_compression="LZW", 
                           geotiff_tags="GEOTIFF_TAGS")

For this sample, I just created a map with one of the AGOL imagery layers in a blank ArcMap layout and exported it to PDF with the GeoReference information embedded.  This creates a TIFF that can be used for additional spatial data in the ArcMap session.

Enjoy,

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