Pdf to jpeg on linux

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What are fast and reliable ways for converting a PDF into a (single) JPEG using the command line on Linux?

If you build xpdf from sources it comes with little utilities for things like pdftotext, pdftojpeg, and podftohtml. They might be distributed with some Linux distros but they don’t seem to be in this Debian I’m using.

Sorry, they’re in poppler-utils. pdfdetach, pdffonts, pdfimages, pdfinfo, pdfseparate, pdfsig, pdftocairo, pdftohtml, pdftoppm, pdftops, pdftotext and pdfunite. Or build xpdf from sources, I’m pretty sure.

Voting to reopen. I don’t see this as a question about «general computing hardware and software», I see it as a question about bash CLI programming.

What @GabrielStaples says. I came here precisely to find this out, and I don’t know of another place to look for this answer.

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For the life of me, over the last 5 years, I cannot get imagemagick to work consistently (if at all) for me, and I don’t know why people continually recommend it again and again. I just googled how to convert a PDF to a JPEG today, found this answer, and tried convert , and it doesn’t work at all for me:

Broken command (doesn’t work for me):

# BROKEN cmd $ convert in.pdf out.jpg convert-im6.q16: not authorized `in.pdf' @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/412. convert-im6.q16: no images defined `out.jpg' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3258. 

(Update 24 Feb. 2022: here is the fix for imagemagick so convert will work. See also my comment here, and my comments under this answer here. I still like pdftoppm , below, much better, however.)

Then, I remembered there was another tool I use and wrote about, so I googled «linux convert pdf to jpg Gabriel Staples», clicked the first hit, and scrolled down to my answer. Here’s what works perfectly for me. This is the basic command format:

Good command—use this instead:

# GOOD cmd pdftoppm -jpeg -r 300 input.pdf output 

Note: on Linux Ubuntu, you may need to do sudo apt update && sudo apt install poppler-utils in order to install pdftoppm . Thanks, @Reynadan.

The -jpeg sets the output image format to JPG, -r 300 sets the output image resolution to 300 DPI, and the word output will be the prefix to all pages of images, which will be numbered and placed into your current directory you are working in. A better way, in my opinion, however, is to use mkdir -p images first to create an «images» directory, then set the output to images/pg so that all output images will be placed cleanly into the images dir you just created, with the file prefix pg in front of each of their numbers.

Therefore, here are my favorite commands:

[Produces ~1MB-sized files per pg] Output in .jpg format at 300 DPI:

 mkdir -p images && pdftoppm -jpeg -r 300 mypdf.pdf images/pg 

 mkdir -p images && pdftoppm -jpeg -jpegopt quality=100 -r 300 mypdf.pdf images/pg 

 mkdir -p images && pdftoppm -jpeg -r 600 mypdf.pdf images/pg 

 mkdir -p images && pdftoppm -jpeg -r 1200 mypdf.pdf images/pg 

See the references below for more details and options.

References:

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How to Convert a PDF File to PNG/JPG Image in Linux

Portable Document Format (PDF) files are widely used nowadays. Images in any format are still easier to edit and manipulate than PDF files so it is general practice to convert pdf files to images to edit them.

In this article, you will learn different ways to convert PDF files to images.

Prerequisites

Note: The commands in this tutorial are executed on a Linux Mint system. All the methods in the tutorial are valid for any Linux-based system.

Convert PDF to Image Using the Command Line Interface(CLI)

Convert PDF to Image With Pdftoppm Tool

Pdftoppm command-line tool comes in the popper-utils package. To install and use pdftoppm, first install the popper-util package.

sudo apt-get install poppler-utils

Following is the basic syntax of the pdftoppm command.

Note: The name of the PDF file used in this tutorial is sample.pdf. You need to insert your filename and image name in the above command.

pdftoppm -png sample.pdf sample

Pdftoppm tool comes with various options. For example, you can target and convert specific pages in your pdf file with the following command.

pdftoppm -png -f 10 -l 15 sample.pdf Sample

-f and -l option specifies the first and last page number. In the output, you can see the converted images reflect the mentioned range.

You can also customize the quality of your converted image with pdftoppm. To customize quality, use -rx and -ry options to change the width and height resolutions.

pdftoppm -png -rx 300 -ry 300 sample.pdf sample

To learn more about the pdftoppm tool and its options, run the following command and read detailed information.

Convert PDF to Image With Imagemagick Tool

Imagemagick is another utility that offers image manipulation functions. It also has programming APIs which makes it highly convenient for use.

You can install the Imagemagick utility with the following command.

sudo apt install imagemagick

Once it is installed, You can convert your pdf files to images with the following command.

convert sample.pdf output_image.jpg

You can see that PDF file conversions are not authorized by policy. If you get this output, go to the Imagemagick policy XML file with the following command.

sudo nano /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml

You will see the following code snippet at the end of the file.

Comment it out in the following format.

Press Ctrl+O and Ctrl+X to finish editing. Run the following command to convert the PDF.

convert sample.pdf output_image.jpg

As you see, the conversion is successful now.

You can refine images by using the -density and -quality options.

convert -density 300 sample.pdf -quality 100 output_image.jpeg

Convert PDF to Image Using the Graphical User Interface(GUI)

Convert PDF to Image With GIMP Application

GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is an image manipulation software.

To install GIMP, search and install it from the Software Manager.

Navigate and import the PDF file and go to the page you want to convert into an image.

Then export it as desired image format.

Conclusion

In this article, you have learned various ways to convert your PDF files to image format.

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How to convert PDF files to JPG format on Linux

While PDF (short for «Portable Document Format») is a widely used document format supported by a variety of applications on multiple platforms, you may want to convert PDF files to JPG format for several reasons. For example, you may want to embed a PDF file into PowerPoint or OpenOffice Impress presentations, in which case JPG/JPEG images will be easier to work with. Converting a PDF file into JPG also makes it unnecessary to load a separate plugin or external application for web browsers to render it. If you are looking to convert PDF files to JPG/JPEG format on Linux, the following guide will help.

Method One: ImageMagick

The easiest one-shot solution to convert a PDF file to JPG format is using ImageMagick. ImageMagic comes with a versatile command-line tool called convert which can handle the conversion easily. Assuming that you have installed ImageMagic on your Linux system, run the following command to convert input.pdf to output.jpg .

$ convert input.pdf output.jpg

Note that if input.pdf is a multi-page PDF file, the above command will produce as many JPG files as the number of pages in the PDF file (e.g., output-0.jpg , output-1.jpg , output-2 .jpg, etc).

Advanced Usage of convert Command

Other usages of convert command are illustrated as follows.

To convert a PDF file to a JPG image with JPEG compression level set to 50 :

$ convert -quality 50 input.pdf output.jpg

The -quality option in the command specifies image compression level. For JPG images, an allowed compression level ranges from 1 (lowest quality and highest compression) to 100 (best quality and lowest compression).

To convert a PDF file to a JPG image with width 500px :

$ convert -density 500 input.pdf output.jpg

To convert the first page of a PDF file into JPG image:

$ convert input.pdf[0] output.jpg

To convert multiple PDF files to JPG format in batch mode:

$ for i in `ls *.pdf`; do convert "$i" "$i".jpg; done

If you think that converting PDF files with convert command takes too much memory to be completed properly, you can check the available resource on your system, and limit the resource usage of convert command as follows.

File Area Memory Map Disk Thread Time ------------------------------------------------------ 768 1.054GB 753.9MiB 1.9632GiB 18.446744EB 1 unlimited

$ convert -limit area 64MiB -limit memory 64MiB input.pdf output.jpg

Method Two: Ghostscript

When convert performs conversion, it actually relies on Ghostscript to interpret PDF files. In fact, you can invoke Ghostscript directly to convert PDF files to JPG format. The advantage of doing so is that you don’t have to install ImageMagick, but just use Ghostscript.

Install Ghostscript on Linux

$ sudo apt-get install ghostscript

$ sudo yum install ghostscript

To convert a PDF file to JPG format with Ghostscript:

$ gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=jpeg -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=5 -sOutputFile=output%d.jpg -dJPEGQ=100 -r500 -q intput.pdf -c quit

The above command will generate a series of output files ( image1.jpg , image2.jpg . image5.jpg ) for the first 5 pages of input.pdf . The JPEG compression level is set to 100 , and output image resolution is set to 500px (width).

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