I’m trying to convert pdf files to images, and I’m doing it with subprocess. Now I need a way to extract only the first page without having to convert all of the images. In this case, for example, I only need to convert “out-1.png.”
What exactly do I need to get this done? Here’s the code I’m currently using:
import subprocess
PDFTOPPMPATH = r"C:Program Filespoppler-0.68.0binpdftoppm.exe"
PDFFILE = r"C:UsersuserDesktopCO880Click_CLIWikibotreport(7).pdf"
subprocess.Popen('"%s" -png "%s" out' % (PDFTOPPMPATH, PDFFILE))
Note: I have no intention to use pdf2image as I found a few errors with it.
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Answer
After looking into the '"%s" -png "%s" out', I discovered that I can pass extra parameters to get the first page.
The first parameter to pass is -f <int> which specifies the first page to convert; however, you must also pass -l <int> to specify the last page to convert. So eventually, I solved my problem by editing my last line to:
subprocess.Popen('"%s" -png "%s" out -f 1 -l 1' % (PDFTOPPMPATH, PDFFILE))