Hi! I was looking into ImageMagick to create a JPG on the fly from a PDF file in an HTML/PHP project and found out it had to be installed on the server. I was wondering if there are any alternatives that can be run from the webpage without installations on the server-side.
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Hi Nicolas,
I think you need something like this: https://gist.github.com/imolorhe/f8794d3bb55e1a8065b23bcd0efeebe1 Using pdf.js you can convert each page in pdf to a corresponding image. I have not tested this myself, but PDF. js has been around for sometime and should work for you converting the pdf to image completely on the client side.
Hi Raj, Thanks for your comment. This look very promising, I will look into it
Please follow the tutorial in the link. It will enable you to convert pdf file to png or jpeg using only JavaScript Load the file using pdf.js Create a button to the function Button is: "download-image"
// Download button (PNG) $("#download-image").on('click', function() { $(this).attr('href', $('#pdf-canvas').get(0).toDataURL());
// Specfify download option with name
$(this).attr('download', 'page.png');
});
// Download button (JPEG with quality 80%) $("#download-image").on('click', function() { $(this).attr('href', $('#pdf-canvas').get(0).toDataURL("image/jpeg", 0.8));
// Specfify download option with name
$(this).attr('download', 'page.jpg');
})