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?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

There are many search results on SO already.

You have the choice between two duplicates:

• ImageMagick/Imagick convert PDF to JPG using native PHP API using the PHP IM bindings

• Imagemagick convert pdf to png using the command line.

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