mdekstrand/pdf-thumbnail.sh

Created February 1, 2012 17:56

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Generate thumbnails of PDF files

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pdf-thumbnail.sh

	#!/bin/sh

	for file in "$@"; do
	outfile="${file%%.pdf}.jpg"
	echo "Thumbnailing $file to $outfile"
	convert -resize 300 "$file[0]" "$outfile"
	done

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mdekstrand commented Feb 1, 2012

This script creates JPEG thumbnails of PDF files using ImageMagick. Just pass the PDF files on the command line, and it will thumbnail them to corresponding .jpg files:

$ /bin/sh pdf-thumbnail.sh *.pdf

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