Pdf2image python Step By Step Implementation Overview

Are you looking at the ways to convert pdf file to image in python?   pdf2image python package is helpful in achieving this in very few steps. In fact, this article will let you know how to use pdf2image python Step By Step.

pdf2image python Step By Step Implementation-

Step 1 :

Install the pdf2iamge python module using the pip package manager.

pip install pdf2image

Step 2:

Import  all the necessary packages.

from pdf2image import convert_from_path

Step 3:

Convert the pdf into an image object using convert_from_path() method. Refer to the below code for achieving it.

image_obj = convert_from_path('/path/sample.pdf') 

You may use different path structures on an OS basis. Actually, the different OS has different file separators. The image_obj is a PIL image object.

Converted Image Object Type and Compatibility :

Obviously when you are converting and PDF file into an image object. You may need to perform some operation over this image after conversion. For example, you need to scale, rotate, or brighten the image. In order to address these objectives, this library converts the image into a PIL python object.

This PIL python object has various supportive operations. Actually, It is a massive python module. Once You have PIL object, you may convert it into jpeg, etc.

How pdf2image internally work?

Actually, the pdf2image module has not its own core. I mean to say it does not have its own implementation code for pdf to image. Actually, It uses pdftoppm and pdftocairo command-line tools internally to achieve the same functionality.  It is just a python interface or wrapper around them.

Still, If you do not want to use pdf2image , you may use the subprocess module python to launch directly pdftoppm and pdftocairo into the application. Well, I hope you must like this article but if you think you may contribute in some way to improve it , You may connect with us. 

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Data Science Learner Team