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Can I use google API to convert a PDF into PNGs?

I have noticed that when you view PDFs in google docs the PDF viewer renders the PDF file into PNG images.

I was wondering if you could use Google Data API to upload a PDF and get the URLs of the rendered PNG files?

I have never used the google API or really had the extra time to learn it, but if it help me do this it will be well worth the extra time.

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I doubt it.. I think it would be easier/more stable to use imagemagick or some other library to handle this. Converting PDFs to images usign imagemagick is just one CLI command.

Alexander Malfait  2010-03-19 19:14:35
I wrote script that does this with ghostscript but I have limited access to the servers that the website I need it for will be on. So I was planning on write a web service that will convert a PDF to PNG files and send an array of URL paths. I was just wondering if there was already a service out there already that could do this.
Kenneth J  2010-03-19 19:19:17
btw I love answers that start out "I doubt it" or "probably not". That's like saying "I don't know. I just wanted to be the first person to post on this thread"
Kenneth J  2010-03-19 19:22:22
+2  A: 

No you can't do it. Google explicitly does not allow it.

Downloading PDFs and arbitrary files

Native PDF files cannot be exported in a format other than .pdf.

systempuntoout  2010-04-06 08:02:27

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