PDF to Jpeg

[ram777]

Hi People,

Let me set the scene, i basically work in a team that uses a tool to gain reports for clients to view. We currently send out about 50 reports a week. These reports come in pdf format. The problem we have is downloading each individual report is time consuming. Although downloading the 1 report that features all 50 is rather quick.

So my idea is to edit the one large report to crop the reports into seperate pdf's. So i need to get my pdf into jpeg form so it can then be edited into the 50 reports. How can i do this. I know there are applications you can download to do this, but this is not an option. I thought i could screen-shot each page but it does seem a bit sloppy. I was hoping there was a way a script might be able to take a jpeg of all the pages and put it into one folder.

Any ideas or help on this would be appreciated? please take into account i am absolutely clueless and do not have a scripting background.

[jchd]

From direct experience, I can tell you that the PDF format is all but simple and you're probably going to spend a lot of time to:

1) find up-to-date PDF specification free of charge

2) read and understand the part you need

3) write your extraction tool ex-nihilo or even using a third-party PDF library

I'm not saying it's an impossible task, but consider it fairly difficult for a beginner in scripting or programming.

I'd use a ready-to-use third party tool for that. That's what I've done just for extracting text from some of the PDF I need to deal with.

OTOH iff you're sure that every report fits on a single page, you can still automate paging thru the document and taking screenshots with AutoIt.

[x001z]

You may need a third party program to do that, I recomend you ImageMagick http://www.imagemagick.org, this have a plenty of options of all kind of image edition and is all command line, so you can crate your script calling this commands, I'm not pretty sure but hope this can help you.

One last thing PDFCreator is one useful software with command line too, i think with this you cant split the original pdf into several pdf's.

And this are open source.

[Zedna]

I think very easy solution for your problem would be to pack 50 PDF reports to one ZIP archive and offer this one file for download.

It's very easy to unpack this ZIP file on other side to get all 50 reports.

If you need some work PDF and you use PDFCreator then consider PDFCreator can be controlled programatically also by COM/OLE.

[ProgAndy]

If you really want all reports in one PDF and then split them lateron, you should look at PDF Split And Merge (http://pdfsam.org)