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How to get a JPG image from a PDF?

Hi,

I'm using PHP 4.4.4 (but can upgrade if that's the answer to this
question). Given a PDF file, I want to be able to generate a JPG of
each page. I have no idea where to start but sure this is a problem
someone has tackled before.

Anything out there you would recommend? - Dave
Feb 1 '08 #1
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la***********@zipmail.com wrote:
Hi,

I'm using PHP 4.4.4 (but can upgrade if that's the answer to this
question). Given a PDF file, I want to be able to generate a JPG of
each page. I have no idea where to start but sure this is a problem
someone has tackled before.

Anything out there you would recommend? - Dave
At the minimum use a screen capture program view each page, capture
it,and process to a JPEG ;-)
Feb 1 '08 #2

<la***********@zipmail.comschreef in bericht
news:28**********************************@1g2000hs l.googlegroups.com...
Hi,

I'm using PHP 4.4.4 (but can upgrade if that's the answer to this
question). Given a PDF file, I want to be able to generate a JPG of
each page. I have no idea where to start but sure this is a problem
someone has tackled before.

Anything out there you would recommend? - Dave
without PHP, you can use PDFcreator (www.pdfforge.org)
its a printerdriver that able to output to JPEG

but this is not from PHP, and only works on Windows......


Feb 1 '08 #3

"Luuk" <lu**@invalid.lanschreef in bericht
news:q6************@leafnode.a62-251-88-195.adsl.xs4all.nl...
>
<la***********@zipmail.comschreef in bericht
news:28**********************************@1g2000hs l.googlegroups.com...
>Hi,

I'm using PHP 4.4.4 (but can upgrade if that's the answer to this
question). Given a PDF file, I want to be able to generate a JPG of
each page. I have no idea where to start but sure this is a problem
someone has tackled before.

Anything out there you would recommend? - Dave

without PHP, you can use PDFcreator (www.pdfforge.org)
its a printerdriver that able to output to JPEG

but this is not from PHP, and only works on Windows......

some more googling revealed:
http://www.scriptsandstuffs.com/deta...onversion.html

Feb 1 '08 #4
On 1 Feb, 06:06, "laredotorn...@zipmail.com"
<laredotorn...@zipmail.comwrote:
Hi,

I'm using PHP 4.4.4 (but can upgrade if that's the answer to this
question). Given a PDF file, I want to be able to generate a JPG of
each page. I have no idea where to start but sure this is a problem
someone has tackled before.

Anything out there you would recommend? - Dave
ghostscript:

gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -sOutputFile=foo.jpg foo.pdf

Should work

C.
Feb 1 '08 #5
On Feb 1, 7:14*am, "C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/)"
<colin.mckin...@gmail.comwrote:
On 1 Feb, 06:06, "laredotorn...@zipmail.com"

<laredotorn...@zipmail.comwrote:
Hi,
I'm using PHP 4.4.4 (but can upgrade if that's the answer to this
question). *Given a PDF file, I want to be able to generate a JPG of
each page. *I have no idea where to start but sure this is a problem
someone has tackled before.
Anything out there you would recommend? - Dave

ghostscript:

gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -sOutputFile=foo.jpg foo.pdf

Should work

C.
To clarify, what I want is if I have a single PDF with 5 pages, I'd
like to be able to have 5 separate JPG files -- each file representing
each page of the PDF. Also, this is not something I want to do
manually, but rather programmatically using PHP, or at least the Linux
system it is running on.

Thanks, - Dave
Feb 1 '08 #6
"la***********@zipmail.com" <la***********@zipmail.comwrote:
>
To clarify, what I want is if I have a single PDF with 5 pages, I'd
like to be able to have 5 separate JPG files -- each file representing
each page of the PDF. Also, this is not something I want to do
manually, but rather programmatically using PHP, or at least the Linux
system it is running on.
Yes, we're all clear on that. The lesson that you are being given here is
that the right way to do this is using freely available tools, not PHP
code. Rendering a PDF file is complicated, essentially requiring a full
PostScript interpreter.
--
Tim Roberts, ti**@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Feb 3 '08 #7
On Feb 2, 11:05*pm, Tim Roberts <t...@probo.comwrote:
"laredotorn...@zipmail.com" <laredotorn...@zipmail.comwrote:
To clarify, what I want is if I have a single PDF with 5 pages, I'd
like to be able to have 5 separate JPG files -- each file representing
each page of the PDF. *Also, this is not something I want to do
manually, but rather programmatically using PHP, or at least the Linux
system it is running on.

Yes, we're all clear on that. *The lesson that you are being given here is
that the right way to do this is using freely available tools, not PHP
code. *Rendering a PDF file is complicated, essentially requiring a full
PostScript interpreter.
--
Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
I will be so bold as to ask how do you run Ghostview so that it only
converts a single page of the PDF to JPG? - Dave
Feb 4 '08 #8

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