pdf to png convert not all the pages

**Cowboybebop79** · January 27th, 2011

At the moment I regularly use Image Magick convert command to convert PDF's to images which is great but I would like to only convert some of the pages in the PDF instead of them all. Im sure the function must be available I just haven't been able to find it even after bashing google for a few days.

Code:

convert *full.pdf test%d.jpg

this is the command I use at the moment.

Any help would be appreciated

**lykeion** · January 27th, 2011

I don't think you can do that with ImageMagick/convert.
You can use poppler-utils/pdftohtml to convert the pdf to html where you can set from and to pages.
Install poppler-utils:

Code:

sudo apt-get install poppler-utils

Example convert pages 1-5 to html:

Code:

pdftohtml -f 1 -l 5 -c input.pdf output.html

**anglican** · January 27th, 2011

Originally Posted by Cowboybebop79

At the moment I regularly use Image Magick convert command to convert PDF's to images which is great but I would like to only convert some of the pages in the PDF instead of them all. Im sure the function must be available I just haven't been able to find it even after bashing google for a few days.

Code:

convert *full.pdf test%d.jpg

this is the command I use at the moment.

Any help would be appreciated

How about using ghostscript, something like:

Code:

gs -dFirstPage=2 -dLastPage=3 -q -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -dBATCH -sDEVICE=png256 -sOutputFile=output.png -f input.pdf

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**Cowboybebop79** · January 28th, 2011

Thanks for the suggestions

in the end I found a blog by Sandeep Sidhu where he had a similar problem of extracting individual pages from a pdf in his solution he created a function in bashrc to shorten the command.

Code:

function pdf-extract()
{
# this function uses 3 arguments:
# $1 is the first page of the range to extract
# $2 is the last page of the range to extract
# $3 is the input file
# output file will be named "inputfile_pXX-pYY.pdf"
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER \
-dFirstPage=${1} \
-dLastPage=${2} \
-sOutputFile=${3%.pdf}_page${1}_to_page${2}.pdf \
${3}
}

@anglican thanks for pointing out that ghostscript can output to image so I combined your suggestion with Sandeep's function and I get this

Code:

function pdf-extract()
{
# this function uses 3 arguments:
# $1 is the first page of the range to extract
# $2 is the last page of the range to extract
# $3 is the input file
gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -dJPEGQ=100 \
-dFirstPage=${1} \
-dLastPage=${2} \
-sOutputFile=doc-%02d.jpg \
${3}
}

after adding this to bashrc the command to produce images is this

Code: