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Convert specified pages from a PDF to png
"""
This script was used to create the figures for http://jrsmith3.github.io/sample-logs-the-secret-to-managing-multi-person-projects.html from a PDF file containing some old CMU sample logs.
"""
import PyPDF2
from wand.image import Image
import io
import os
def pdf_page_to_png(src_pdf, pagenum = 0, resolution = 72,):
"""
Returns specified PDF page as wand.image.Image png.
:param PyPDF2.PdfFileReader src_pdf: PDF from which to take pages.
:param int pagenum: Page number to take.
:param int resolution: Resolution for resulting png in DPI.
"""
dst_pdf = PyPDF2.PdfFileWriter()
dst_pdf.addPage(src_pdf.getPage(pagenum))
pdf_bytes = io.BytesIO()
dst_pdf.write(pdf_bytes)
pdf_bytes.seek(0)
img = Image(file = pdf_bytes, resolution = resolution)
img.convert("png")
return img
# Main
# ====
src_filename = "sample_log.pdf"
src_pdf = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(file(src_filename, "rb"))
# What follows is a lookup table of page numbers within sample_log.pdf and the corresponding filenames.
pages = [{"pagenum": 22, "filename": "samplelog_jrs0019_p1"},
{"pagenum": 23, "filename": "samplelog_jrs0019_p2"},
{"pagenum": 124, "filename": "samplelog_jrs0075_p3_2011-02-05_18-55"},]
# Convert each page to a png image.
for page in pages:
big_filename = page["filename"] + ".png"
small_filename = page["filename"] + "_small" + ".png"
img = pdf_page_to_png(src_pdf, pagenum = page["pagenum"], resolution = 300)
img.save(filename = big_filename)
# Ensmallen
img.transform("", "200")
img.save(filename = small_filename)
# Deal with the cropping for JRS0070.
jrs0070 = {"pagenum": 109, "filename": "samplelog_jrs0070_p1"}
img = pdf_page_to_png(src_pdf, pagenum = jrs0070["pagenum"], resolution = 300)
big_filename = jrs0070["filename"] + ".png"
small_filename = jrs0070["filename"] + "_small" + ".png"
# Crop
img.crop(bottom = 1000)
# Save
img.save(filename = big_filename)
# Ensmallen
img.transform("", "200")
img.save(filename = small_filename)
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thomp commented Dec 10, 2014

Helpful! Thanks.

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Thanks.

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KoStard commented Mar 25, 2018

Hi thank you for your work, but I get errors...

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "PDF_to_jpg.py", line 45, in <module>
    img = pdf_page_to_png(src_pdf, pagenum = page["pagenum"], resolution = 300)
  File "PDF_to_jpg.py", line 25, in pdf_page_to_png
    img = Image(file = pdf_bytes, resolution = resolution)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wand/image.py", line 2740, in __init__
    self.read(file=file, resolution=resolution)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wand/image.py", line 2822, in read
    self.raise_exception()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wand/resource.py", line 222, in raise_exception
    raise e
wand.exceptions.BlobError: zero-length blob not permitted `' @ error/blob.c/BlobToImage/344
Exception ignored in: <bound method Resource.__del__ of <wand.image.Image: (empty)>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wand/resource.py", line 232, in __del__
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wand/image.py", line 2767, in destroy
TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()

I'm using python3
I hope you know how to solve this problem....

@KoStard
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KoStard commented Mar 25, 2018

I found solution and wrote a script for extracting cover as PNG from PDF... If you are interested: https://github.com/KoStard/PDF-cover-extractor

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