Now that the conversion API is discontinued is there a way to convert PDF files to an image in appengine / python?

Question

Now that the Google Conversion API has been discontinued is there a way to convert PDF files to images in GAE, specially python?

Looks like someone has already requested this from Google but there hasn't been any action.

A couple years ago the consensus was it wasn't possible. Anything new out there that could help me out?

Answer 1

If you read the issue report you linked to, there are two suggestions there:

1. Use ImageMagick to do it locally.
2. Use the service described in the comments that is "working well", "super easy to deploy", and "freely available", and good enough that "this issue can be closed".

The first is obviously not possible if you're running in a pure hosted environment that doesn't provide ImageMagick, but the second has no such problem. Of course neither is an "official Google" solution, but… so what?

If there's something specific you can't do either way, you'll have to tell us what.