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php pdf - converting to png/jpg/gif/tif

(/members/293333/kireol) kireol 10 (/members/293333/kireol)

8 Years Ago (https://www.daniweb.com/programming/web-development/threads/207409/php-pdf-co…

Anyone know of a way using php (no shell_execs), to convert a pdf to an image type of
png, jpg,gif, or tif?
In my existing app we are shelling out using ghostscript, pdftk, etc, and would like to
switch this over to all inside of php.
Yes, I've googled. a lot! ;)

 it looks like fpdf will allow you to convert an image of those types, but can't see how to
load an existing pdf and then to convert it.
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6 Years Ago (https://www.daniweb.com/programming/web-development/threads/207409/php-pdf-co…

 Following code might help you in converting from PDF to JPG/TIF/GIF. Further
description of following code is available here (/posts/bad_link/1650892?
url=http%3A%2F%2Fsourcecodemania.com%2F2011%2F08%2F05%2Fconverting-
multipage-tiff-file-to-jpggif-in-php%2F)

1.  <?php
2.  try
3.  {
4.    // Saving every page of a TIFF separately as a JPG thumbnail
5.    $images = new Imagick("testing.tif");
6.    foreach($images as $i=>$image) {
7.      // Providing 0 forces thumbnail Image to maintain aspect ratio
8.      $image‐>thumbnailImage(768,0);
9.      $image‐>writeImage("page".$i.".jpg");
10.      echo "<img src='page$i.jpg' alt='images' ></img>";
11.    }
12.    $images‐>clear();
13.  }
14.  catch(Exception $e)

 15. 
16. 
{
  echo $e‐>getMessage();
1 17.  }
18.  ?>
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(/members/416137/chrishea) chrishea 182 (/members/416137/chrishea)

6 Years Ago (https://www.daniweb.com/programming/web-development/threads/207409/php-pdf-co…

I don't see how that will help since it is intended to convert Tiff to JPG/GIF not PDF to
JPG/GIF.
 This might help
0 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=230074
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(/members/917034/falakniazi) falakniazi (/members/917034/falakniazi)

6 Years Ago (https://www.daniweb.com/programming/web-development/threads/207409/php-pdf-co…

Just replace testing.tif with your pdf file. It will work fine. You need to install
ImageMagick and ghostscript for this to work.
Following is further simpler example of pdf to jpg.
 1.  $im = new imagick($file_location); // your pdf file 
0 2.  $im‐>setImageFormat( "jpg" );
3.  $pdf_pages=$im‐>getNumberImages();
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 Thank you so much I have done with pdf to png images generate.
0 Again thank! You save me from the pain.
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(/members/1127720/adeleb) AdeleB (/members/1127720/adeleb)

2 Years Ago (https://www.daniweb.com/programming/web-development/threads/207409/php-pdf-co…

 Just followed to finish <a href="http://www.pqscan.com/convert-pdf/

-3 (http://www.pqscan.com/convert-pdf/)">converting to png/jpg/gif/tif</a>

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diafol

2 Years Ago (https://www.daniweb.com/programming/web-development/threads/207409/php-pdf-co…

The OP was 6 years ago. Please refrain from resurrecting this dead thread. The last post
 is specific to .NET technologies. The OP, although not specified, but stated in the tags,
points to PHP. If anybody has a specific useful link / custom solution for this that
0 improves upon information already given in this thread, fine. Else, please leave alone.
 Thanks.

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