https://github.com/salmedina/pdf2thumb

This little program generates a thumbnail of a certain pdf for quick visualization. It is based on ImageMagick as it has all the functionality required.
https://github.com/salmedina/pdf2thumb

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This little program generates a thumbnail of a certain pdf for quick visualization. It is based on ImageMagick as it has all the functionality required.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/salmedina/pdf2thumb
• Owner: salmedina
• Created: 2017-03-28T18:01:50.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-05-21T22:10:22.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T22:55:51.933Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 7.15 MB
• Stars: 17
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# pdf2thumb

This is a little Python program which extracts a thumbnail view from a given pdf file. You can select the  number of pages to be displayed. Hope this helps other to display their papers in their sites.

## Requirements

### ImageMagick

This program is just a shell of calling procedures for **ImageMagick** which is the package that does all the magick (o.O?). 

The installation instructions can be found [here](https://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php).

## Usage example

It is fairly easy to use, you only need to give it:

- the pdf path

- where the thumbnail will be stored 

- and optionally the number of pages:

#### 3 pages

```

./pdf2thumb.py demo/report.pdf demo/report_3.png 3

```

![](demo/report_3.png)

#### 5 pages

```

./pdf2thumb.py demo/report.pdf demo/report_5.png 5

```

![](demo/report_5.png)

#### All pages

```

./pdf2thumb.py demo/report.pdf demo/report_all.png

```

![](demo/report_all.png)