gistfile1.py

from wand.image import Image as WandImage
import sys

if __name__ == '__main__':

    print "Welcome to wand-text.py!"

    if len(sys.argv) != 3:
        print "Usage:\n\n\tpython wand-text.py <input_pdf_filename> <output_image_basename>"
        print "Ex: \n\n\tpython wand-text.py pdfdocument.pdf page"
    else:

        pdf_filename = sys.argv[1]
        image_filename = sys.argv[2]

        try:
        #if True:
            img = WandImage(filename=pdf_filename, resolution=400)

            # wand makes image sequences out of multi-page files
            for i,im in zip(xrange(len(img.sequence)), img.sequence):
                im.clone().save(filename='%s-%i.jpg' %(image_filename, i))
                
        except Exception, e:
            print "ERROR: {0}".format(e)

    print "Exit."

If I had a nickel for every time I wrote 'text' instead of 'test' ...