How do I convert a PDF document to a preview image in PHP? [closed]
You need ImageMagick and GhostScript
<?php$im = new imagick('file.pdf[0]');$im->setImageFormat('jpg');header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');echo $im;?>The [0] means page 1.
For those who don't have ImageMagick for whatever reason, GD functions will also work, in conjunction with GhostScript. Run the ghostscript command with exec() to convert a PDF to JPG, and manipulate the resulting file with imagecreatefromjpeg().
Run the ghostscript command:
exec('gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -sDEVICE=jpeg -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -r300 -sOutputFile=whatever.jpg input.pdf')To manipulate, create a new placeholder image, $newimage = imagecreatetruecolor(...), and bring in the current image. $image = imagecreatefromjpeg('whatever.jpg'), and then you can use imagecopyresampled() to change the size, or any number of other built-in, non-imagemagick commands