Extract a page from a pdf as a jpeg

Question

The pdf2image library can be used.

You can install it simply using,

pip install pdf2image

Once installed you can use following code to get images.

from pdf2image import convert_from_path
pages = convert_from_path('pdf_file', 500)

Saving pages in jpeg format

for page in pages:
    page.save('out.jpg', 'JPEG')

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Edit: the Github repo pdf2image also mentions that it uses pdftoppm and that it requires other installations:

pdftoppm is the piece of software that does the actual magic. It is distributed as part of a greater package called poppler. Windows users will have to install poppler for Windows. Mac users will have to install poppler for Mac. Linux users will have pdftoppm pre-installed with the distro (Tested on Ubuntu and Archlinux) if it's not, run sudo apt install poppler-utils.

You can install the latest version under Windows using anaconda by doing:

conda install -c conda-forge poppler

note: Windows versions upto 0.67 are available at http://blog.alivate.com.au/poppler-windows/ but note that 0.68 was released in Aug 2018 so you'll not be getting the latest features or bug fixes.

I found this simple solution, PyMuPDF, output to png file. Note the library is imported as "fitz", a historical name for the rendering engine it uses.

import fitz

pdffile = "infile.pdf"
doc = fitz.open(pdffile)
page = doc.loadPage(0)  # number of page
pix = page.get_pixmap()
output = "outfile.png"
pix.save(output)

The Python library pdf2image (used in the other answer) in fact doesn't do much more than just launching pdttoppm with subprocess.Popen, so here is a short version doing it directly:

PDFTOPPMPATH = r"D:\Documents\software\____PORTABLE\poppler-0.51\bin\pdftoppm.exe"
PDFFILE = "SKM_28718052212190.pdf"

import subprocess
subprocess.Popen('"%s" -png "%s" out' % (PDFTOPPMPATH, PDFFILE))

Here is the Windows installation link for pdftoppm (contained in a package named poppler): http://blog.alivate.com.au/poppler-windows/.

There is no need to install Poppler on your OS. This will work:

pip install Wand

from wand.image import Image

f = "somefile.pdf"
with(Image(filename=f, resolution=120)) as source: 
    for i, image in enumerate(source.sequence):
        newfilename = f[:-4] + str(i + 1) + '.jpeg'
        Image(image).save(filename=newfilename)

@gaurwraith, install poppler for Windows and use pdftoppm.exe as follows:

1. Download zip file with Poppler's latest binaries/dlls from http://blog.alivate.com.au/poppler-windows/ and unzip to a new folder in your program files folder. For example: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Poppler".

2. Add "C:\Program Files (x86)\Poppler\poppler-0.68.0\bin" to your SYSTEM PATH environment variable.

3. From cmd line install pdf2image module -> "pip install pdf2image".

4. Or alternatively, directly execute pdftoppm.exe from your code using Python's subprocess module as explained by user Basj.

@vishvAs vAsuki, this code should generate the jpgs you want through the subprocess module for all pages of one or more pdfs in a given folder:

import os, subprocess

pdf_dir = r"C:\yourPDFfolder"
os.chdir(pdf_dir)

pdftoppm_path = r"C:\Program Files (x86)\Poppler\poppler-0.68.0\bin\pdftoppm.exe"

for pdf_file in os.listdir(pdf_dir):

    if pdf_file.endswith(".pdf"):

        subprocess.Popen('"%s" -jpeg %s out' % (pdftoppm_path, pdf_file))

Or using the pdf2image module:

import os
from pdf2image import convert_from_path

pdf_dir = r"C:\yourPDFfolder"
os.chdir(pdf_dir)

    for pdf_file in os.listdir(pdf_dir):

        if pdf_file.endswith(".pdf"):

            pages = convert_from_path(pdf_file, 300)
            pdf_file = pdf_file[:-4]

            for page in pages:

               page.save("%s-page%d.jpg" % (pdf_file,pages.index(page)), "JPEG")