How do I turn a PDF email attachment to an image (jpg) in a PHP page?

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How do I turn a PDF email attachment to an image (jpg) in a PHP page?

Hi guys. Long time viewer, first time question asker.

I'm trying to have my personal website parse through my mail box for attachments from a certain subscription list, and then be able to view the PDF attachments as images, preferably jpg.

With the help of this: http://www.linuxscope.net/articles/mailAttachmentsPHP.html I'm currently using imap_base64() to decode the MIME data and create the PDF. However, I hate using PDF readers in general and I thought it would be a lot more streamlined if I could just view it as an image instead. I've heard for convert with ImageMagick, but would I need to actually write the PDF to a directory before using this, or can I convert somehow directly from the MIME data in the email?

Thanks in advance!

Install and use the Imagick PHP module: http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.imagick.php

bogdanvursu 2010-05-27 08:32:20

I mentioned that I've seen convert with ImageMagick, and it's already installed on my shared webhost. However, if it's possible, how do I use it to convert the MIME data in an email attachment to JPG? It seems like I have to write the data to PDF somewhere first, which I would like to avoid. I would like to do this on the fly, as I have been with PDF downloads.

MisterCheese 2010-06-01 20:16:45

Well if this is UNIX /proc/self/fd/3 might be usable as a filename, but then again PHP doesn't expose that directly so guess what, you get to write a C module to translate the interface.

Joshua 2010-06-02 17:34:16

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