Convert from PDF to raster format image

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On Sat, 16 Apr 2004, R.Marquez wrote:

> Does any one know of a way to convert PDF documents into a raster
> format, such as TIFF or JPEG?  Of course to do it in Python would be
> my preference, but if you know of another way to do this
> programatically I would also be interested.  Thanks.

Ghostscript?

If it can, on some platforms GS is built as a DLL or shared object, with a
defined API.  The ctypes module might be able to let you drive this;
failing that, os.system() would work.

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