Convert Pdf To Image Using Python

I am trying to convert a pdf file to image file for this in my ubuntu server i have installed: python2.7 poppler-utils pdf2image==1.12.1 My code: from pdf2image import convert_fr

Solution 1:

I failed in python2 too, but succeeded in python3.

There's a same issue happened on an other library: TypeError: 'threadsafe_iter' object is not an iterator

As they said, it's a python 2 vs 3 issue, caused by next() function. If modify __next__() -> next() in file/home/***/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pdf2image/generators.py , it will run successful in py2.

BTW, i have create a new issue to pdf2image team. TypeError: ThreadSafeGenerator object is not an iterator #133

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Additional pdf2image readme said it's a python (3.5+) module. pdf2image v1.7.1 work on py27. try it by pip install pdf2image==1.7.1

Solution 2:

If you want to convert PDF to image you can try Python Ghostscript package:

pip install ghostscript

import ghostscript
import locale

defpdf2jpeg(pdf_input_path, jpeg_output_path):
    args = ["pef2jpeg", # actual value doesn't matter"-dNOPAUSE",
            "-sDEVICE=jpeg",
            "-r144",
            "-sOutputFile=" + jpeg_output_path,
            pdf_input_path]

    encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
    args = [a.encode(encoding) for a in args]

    ghostscript.Ghostscript(*args)

pdf2jpeg(
    "...Fixate/ActiveState/pdf/a.pdf",
    "...Fixate/ActiveState/pdf/a.jpeg",
)