Convert PDF to images in php

Question

Hello everybody,

These are the steps I am trying to achieve:

1) Upload a PDF document on the server.

2) Convert the PDF document to a set of images, and saving them.

Any ideas for doing #2 using php??

Answer 1

If you have the ImageMagick extension compiled into PHP, it should be able to read in PDFs and convert them to any common image format. I don't believe the GD extension (which is more common) has PDF capabilities, sadly.