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    Command Line PDF-to-JPG conversion

I needed to be able to extract the first page from a folder of PDFs and export them as JPGs.
Poked around StackExchange and found out about vips.
I wrote a simple bash script to run inside of the folder with the PDFs.
Instructions


Install vips using Homebrew: brew install vips
Download process.sh and move it into your PDF folder.
Run chmod u+x pdf-to-jpg.sh to give the file permissions.
Execute ./pdf-to-jpg.sh to conver the PDFs to JPGs.
Voila!


## pdf-to-jpg.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Dependencies: vips
# Homebrew: brew install vips
for file in *.pdf
do
   # Run vips pdfload for options
   # You could add --page=1 to get the second page (from 0) or --dpi=300, etc. to get different quality images
   # The variable gets the filename without the extension
   vips pdfload ${file%.*}.pdf ${file%.*}.jpg
done
	#!/bin/bash
	# Dependencies: vips
	# Homebrew: brew install vips
	for file in *.pdf
	do
	# Run vips pdfload for options
	# You could add --page=1 to get the second page (from 0) or --dpi=300, etc. to get different quality images
	# The variable gets the filename without the extension
	vips pdfload ${file%.}.pdf ${file%.}.jpg
	done