pdf2image ☆

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Description:
Convert PDFs to images

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Productivity

Tags: pdf conversion images poppler cli

Install: brew install pdf2image

About:
Pdf2image is a command-line utility that converts PDF documents into various image formats like JPEG, PNG, and TIFF. It leverages the Poppler rendering library to ensure high-fidelity conversion of text and graphics. This tool is essential for workflows that require document previews, image-based archiving, or extracting visual content from PDF files.

Key Features:

Supports multiple output formats including JPEG, PNG, and TIFF
High-quality rendering based on the Poppler library
Command-line interface for easy scripting and automation
Allows control over DPI resolution for output images

Use Cases:

Generating thumbnail previews of PDF documents for web galleries
Extracting specific pages from a PDF as images for presentations
Automated conversion of PDF reports to image formats for mobile viewing

Alternatives:

ImageMagick – A more comprehensive image processing suite that can also handle PDF conversions, but is a much larger dependency.
Ghostscript – A powerful PostScript and PDF interpreter that can perform conversions, but has a more complex command-line syntax.

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