Java PDF to Image conversion (Tutorial)

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1 Java PDF to image conversion (Method 1 – fast and standard quality image)

1.1 and here is the Java code to convert PDF to Image…

2 Java PDF to image conversion (Method 2 – slower and very high quality image)

2.1 and here is the Java code for PDF to Image conversion…

Do you need to convert your PDF files to images in Java? PDF files are not directly supported in Java but you can solve this problem very easily with a third-party Java PDF library.

This tutorial shows you how to convert PDF to Image using Java with our popular JPedal Java PDF library. You can convert a PDF file to a BufferedImage in Java or save it directly to BMP, GIF, HEIC, JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, TIFF, or WebP.

Java PDF to image conversion (Method 1 – fast and standard quality image)

Download JPedal trial jar.
Create a File handle, InputStream or URL pointing to the PDF file
Include a password if file password protected
Open the PDF file
Iterate over the pages
Close the PDF file

and here is the Java code to convert PDF to Image…

File file = new File("/path/to/document.pdf"));
ConvertPagesToImages extract=new ConvertPagesToImages(file);
//extract.setPassword("password");
if (extract.openPDFFile()) {
  int pageCount = extract.getPageCount();
  for (int page = 1; page <= pageCount; page++) {
    BufferedImage img = extract.getPageAsImage(page, hasAlpha);
  }
}
extract.closePDFfile();

Java PDF to image conversion (Method 2 – slower and very high quality image)

Download JPedal trial jar.
Create a File handle, InputStream or URL pointing to the PDF file
Include a password if file password protected
Set conversion options for output defined in JPedalSettings
Open the PDF file
Iterate over the pages
Close the PDF file

and here is the Java code for PDF to Image conversion…

File file = new File("/path/to/document.pdf"));
ConvertPagesToHiResImages extract=new ConvertPagesToHiResImages(file);
//extract.setPassword("password");
if (extract.openPDFFile()) {
  int pageCount = extract.getPageCount();
  for (int page = 1; page <= pageCount; page++) {
    BufferedImage img = extract.getPageAsImage(page, hasAlpha);
  }
}
extract.closePDFfile();

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The JPedal PDF library allows you to solve these problems in Java

Viewer viewer = new Viewer();
viewer.setupViewer();
viewer.executeCommand(ViewerCommands.OPENFILE, "pdfFile.pdf");

//Convenience static method (see class for additional options)
ExtractClippedImages.writeAllClippedImagesToDir("inputFileOrDirectory", "outputDir", "outputImageFormat", new String[] {"imageHeightAsFloat", "subDirectoryForHeight"});

//Convenience static method (see class for additional options)
ExtractTextAsWordList.writeAllWordlistsToDir("inputFileOrDirectory", "outputDir", -1);

//Convenience static method (see class for additional options)
ArrayList resultsForPages = FindTextInRectangle.findTextOnAllPages("/path/to/file.pdf", "textToFind");

PrintPdfPages print = new PrintPdfPages("C:/pdfs/mypdf.pdf");

if (print.openPDFFile()) {
    print.printAllPages("Printer Name");
}

//Convenience static method (see class for additional options)
ExtractClippedImages.writeAllClippedImagesToDir("inputFileOrDirectory", "outputDir", "outputImageFormat", new String[] {"imageHeightAsFloat", "subDirectoryForHeight"});

Java PDF to Image conversion (Tutorial)

Java PDF to image conversion (Method 1 – fast and standard quality image)

and here is the Java code to convert PDF to Image…

Java PDF to image conversion (Method 2 – slower and very high quality image)

and here is the Java code for PDF to Image conversion…

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