gtitsworth Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I am trying to create a way so that a user can upload a PDF file, and my code will automatically take the cover of the PDF (Page 1) and convert it to an image to use as a PDF preview in another page. I have searched the web for a short period of time and found many ways to do the Image-->PDF conversion, but no articles on how to reverse the process. Has anyone else come across this problem and found a way to do this or a more clever approach to previewing a PDF (without having to manually upload a separate image file when the PDF is uploaded)? Any help or direction to any articles that could help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/44592-converting-a-pdf-to-images/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsaba Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 your only setback i see as now is figuring out how to "take a snapshot of the pdf file" with php the rest is easy compared to that I would research other similar technologies like how askjeeves takes a snapshot of websites there is probably an API for this, search on google for some kind of "snapshot" technology as far as php is concerned i know of NO function dealing with the gd library that can take pictures of things, or snapshots Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/44592-converting-a-pdf-to-images/#findComment-216586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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