Tesseract and tiff format - spp not in set {1,3}

Question

While trying to run this command:

tesseract bond111.tif bond111 batch.nochop makebox

I get the next error

Error in pixReadFromT         


        

Answer 1

Adjusting the conversion to the following line did help me.

convert -density 300 input.pdf -depth 8 -background white -alpha Off output.tiff

Note that the other answers did not work for me since they use the deprecated +matte flag instead of -alpha Off.