Convert from PDF to raster format image

R.Marquez

Does any one know of a way to convert PDF documents into a raster
format, such as TIFF or JPEG? Of course to do it in Python would be
my preference, but if you know of another way to do this
programatically I would also be interested. Thanks.

-Ruben

Jul 18 '05 #1

Fredrik Lundh

"R.Marquez" wrote:

Does any one know of a way to convert PDF documents into a raster
format, such as TIFF or JPEG? Of course to do it in Python would be
my preference, but if you know of another way to do this
programatically I would also be interested. Thanks.

did you try ghostscript?

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
http://www.ghostscript.com

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Jul 18 '05 #2

Kyler Laird

ny**********@yahoo.com (R.Marquez) writes:

Does any one know of a way to convert PDF documents into a raster
format, such as TIFF or JPEG? Of course to do it in Python would be
my preference, but if you know of another way to do this
programatically I would also be interested. Thanks.

I'm all for Pythonic solutions but from my experience your best bet
is to just use Ghostscript. It's easy to call it from Python.

--kyler

Jul 18 '05 #3

Andrew MacIntyre

On Sat, 16 Apr 2004, R.Marquez wrote:

Does any one know of a way to convert PDF documents into a raster
format, such as TIFF or JPEG? Of course to do it in Python would be
my preference, but if you know of another way to do this
programatically I would also be interested. Thanks.

Ghostscript?

If it can, on some platforms GS is built as a DLL or shared object, with a
defined API. The ctypes module might be able to let you drive this;
failing that, os.system() would work.

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Jul 18 '05 #4