How to get PDF first page and convert it to JPG

Question

Theres a way, using PHP exec and Image MagicK, to get the first PDF page and convert it to JPG?

possible duplicate of [Imagemagick convert pdf to png](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1811640/imagemagick-convert-pdf-to-png) — Pekka, Feb 10 '11 at 18:02

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 09 '11 at 20:46

To answer your question, you convert just the nth page page as follows:

convert file.pdf[n] output_file.jpg

Note that this is zero based, so for the first page you would want to use file.pdf[0].

If you wish to convert the entire file, you can do:

convert file.pdf output_file.jpg

And this will produce a bunch of files in the form of output_file-0.jpg, output_file-1.jpg, ..., output_file-n.jpg

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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You have the choice between two duplicates:

Note that for this to work, you need Ghostscript installed along with ImageMagick. (I think this usually is the case.)

edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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answered Feb 10 '11 at 18:01

Pekka

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