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Get a JPEG of the first page of a PDF file
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pdf-one-page-jpg.sh
# Extracts the first page of the PDF
gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="page1.pdf" -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 {pdf-file-name}
# Converts that 1 page PDF into a JPEG
convert "page1.pdf" {pdf-file-name}.jpg
# Delete the 1-page pdf
rm "page1.pdf"
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