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In python code, how to efficiently save a certain page in a pdf as a jpeg file? (Use case: I've a python flask web server where pdf-s will be uploaded and jpeg-s corresponding to each page is stores.)

This solution is close, but the problem is that it does not convert the entire page to jpeg.

The pdf2image library can be used.

You can install it simply using,

pip install pdf2image

Once installed you can use following code to get images.

from pdf2image import convert_from_path

pages = convert_from_path('pdf_file', 500)

Saving pages in jpeg format

for page in pages:

    page.save('out.jpg', 'JPEG')

Edit: the Github repo pdf2image also mentions that it uses pdftoppm and that it requires other installations:

pdftoppm is the piece of software that does the actual magic. It is distributed as part of a greater package called poppler.
Windows users will have to install poppler for Windows.
Mac users will have to install poppler for Mac.
Linux users will have pdftoppm pre-installed with the distro (Tested on Ubuntu and Archlinux) if it's not, run sudo apt install poppler-utils.

Here is the proper installation for Windows: http://blog.alivate.com.au/poppler-windows/

The Python library pdf2image (used in the other answer) in fact doesn't do much more than just launching pdttoppm with subprocess.Popen, so here is a short version doing it directly:

PDFTOPPMPATH = r"D:Documentssoftware____PORTABLEpoppler-0.51binpdftoppm.exe"

PDFFILE = "SKM_28718052212190.pdf"



import subprocess

subprocess.Popen('"%s" -png "%s" out' % (PDFTOPPMPATH, PDFFILE)) #have updated the values here

Here is the Windows installation link for pdftoppm (contained in a package named poppler): http://blog.alivate.com.au/poppler-windows/

@gaurwraith, install poppler for Windows and use pdftoppm.exe as follows:

1. Download zip file with Poppler's latest binaries/dlls from http://blog.alivate.com.au/poppler-windows/ and unzip to a new folder in your program files folder. For example: "C:Program Files (x86)Poppler".




2. Add "C:Program Files (x86)Popplerpoppler-0.68.0bin" to your SYSTEM PATH environment variable.




3. From cmd line install pdf2image module -> "pip install pdf2image".



4. Or alternatively, directly execute pdftoppm.exe from your code using Python's subprocess module as explained by user Basj.

@vishvAs vAsuki, this code should generate the jpgs you want through the subprocess module for all pages of one or more pdfs in a given folder:

import os, subprocess



pdf_dir = r"C:yourPDFfolder"

os.chdir(pdf_dir)



pdftoppm_path = r"C:Program Files (x86)Popplerpoppler-0.68.0binpdftoppm.exe"



for pdf_file in os.listdir(pdf_dir):



    if pdf_file.endswith(".pdf"):



        subprocess.Popen('"%s" -jpeg %s out' % (pdftoppm_path, pdf_file))

Or using the pdf2image module:

import os

from pdf2image import convert_from_path



pdf_dir = r"C:yourPDFfolder"

os.chdir(pdf_dir)



    for pdf_file in os.listdir(pdf_dir):



        if pdf_file.endswith(".pdf"):



            pages = convert_from_path(pdf_file, 300)

            pdf_file = pdf_file[:-4]



            for page in pages:



               page.save("%s-page%d.jpg" % (pdf_file,pages.index(page)), "JPEG")

There is no need to install Poppler on your OS. This will work:

pip install Wand

from wand.image import Image



with(Image(filename="somefile.pdf", resolution=120)) as source: 

    images = source.sequence

    pages = len(images)

    for i in range(pages):

        n = i + 1

        newfilename = f[:-4] + str(n) + '.jpeg'

        Image(images[i]).save(filename=newfilename)

Their is a utility called pdftojpg which can be used to convert the pdf to img

You can found the code here https://github.com/pankajr141/pdf2jpg

from pdf2jpg import pdf2jpg

inputpath = r"D:inputdirpdf1.pdf"

outputpath = r"D:outputdir"

# To convert single page

result = pdf2jpg.convert_pdf2jpg(inputpath, outputpath, pages="1")

print(result)



# To convert multiple pages

result = pdf2jpg.convert_pdf2jpg(inputpath, outputpath, pages="1,0,3")

print(result)



# to convert all pages

result = pdf2jpg.convert_pdf2jpg(inputpath, outputpath, pages="ALL")

print(result)