Creating Thumbnail from PDF without Adobe SDK

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I've been looking for ways by which I can generate Thumbnails from pdf, as shown in the explorer. But the problem is that without Adobe Pro, the free version does not expose all ihe COM interfaces. Is there any other way? please help.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '11 at 17:43

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Ghostscript (which is what ImageMagick uses) will generate images in a wide variety of different image formats... if you need something really obscure then use the imagemagick wrapper, otherwise, I prefer the straight dope.

answered Jun 06 '11 at 17:43

Mark Storer

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I read ur comment on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5449903/advanced-pdf-parser-for-java/5462554#5462554 , and I got it. :) – Biswanath Chowdhury Jun 07 '11 at 15:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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If you can afford a commercial option, you could use Amyuni PDF Creator ActiveX for this task, (or .Net version if that suits your needs better). Using this product you can create jpg/png/bmp images from the first page of your PDF files with the specified resolution, and then use them as thumbnails.
Disclaimer: I am part of the development team of this product.

Here are other SO questions proposing other approaches (not involving COM):

edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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answered Jun 01 '11 at 17:14

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thank u. But is there no other *open-source* options, btw commercial apps are always welcome :) – Biswanath Chowdhury Jun 02 '11 at 14:54
The other 2 links that I mentioned have references to open source options, but I do not know any that can be used with COM. – yms Jun 02 '11 at 15:00
the 2nd link was much useful. :) – Biswanath Chowdhury Jun 02 '11 at 15:53

Creating Thumbnail from PDF without Adobe SDK

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