I need to build a service that converts individual pages from a pdf document to png images and servers them to a javascript reader running in browser. The challenge is that this should happen super fast so that a user flipping through the pages of a document in the web browser would see the next page with minimum delay. I have tried using a few pdf to image libraries but they are slow for dynamic conversion. Do you know what's the fastest way to do this?
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Why should it be done in realtime? You can do it beforehand since pdf's are usually quite static
Henri
2010-08-12 22:43:35
Well, the online reader would have a zoom function. So I need to generate images with different zoom levels. However it makes sense to cache the images for later access.
shane
2010-08-13 15:49:32