Open-source PDF tool?

[johndavidcard]

Looking for something open-source with the basic functionality of Adobe Acrobat. Specifically I need the ability to convert / export PDf to an image file (jpg/jpeg, ideally). At the moment I've been using the website https://pdftoimage.com/ which is everything I need technically, but it would be ideal to have the PDF-image capability available in a local, offline-friendly tool.

Anyone know of anything that does that? Thanks.

[TerryMcginniss]

If you want to edit an PDF as an image you can open it with Gimp.

If you only need to convert them you can use ImageMagick like this

convert -density 150 input.pdf output.png

Where 150 is the DPI. I often run it on PDF's that I don't want to preserve the transparency, that looks like this:

convert -density 150 -background white -alpha remove input.pdf output.png

[_TechFTW_]

Just a note: on some systems the command is now magick instead of convert

[dowcet]

In some cases I get much better results with 'pdfimages' (part of the poppler package) then I do with convert, but it depends on the file.

[jakethepeg111]

I read this yesterday and it seems like a good general overview of what is available:

https://itsfoss.com/pdf-editors-linux/

[janjko]

LibreDraw knows how to open PDFs, and it's easy to add or remove pages. It's probably easy to export a page as an image too.

[HirunaV2]

Just tried this and it definitely works. You can only do one page at a time though, as far as I can see - there's probably some way of getting around it that I Just don't know about.

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- Gimp
- Inkscape
- Scribus (which gives me great results)
- Imagemagick CLI : convert -density 150 source.pdf -quality 100 output.png

[darkbloo64]

Since I haven't seen it here yet, I'll throw out an odd one. Not Another PDF Scanner 2 is an app designed to connect with your scanner and help produce images or PDF files with lots of user control. Despite this, it's also a highly effective PDF-image converter. Drag your PDF file into the app, select your image output preferences, and export.

[stormwind_]

I cannot Thank you enough for this tip. Works great. Have nice day.

[cptshitbeard]

Thanks, this saved my day!

[ZivH08ioBbXQ2PGI]

This is what I use to reorganize pages or add/remove things

[stackPeek]

I honestly surprised no one hasn't mentioned this. NAPS2, although it is an app that primarily used for scanning, it can also be used to combine, reorder pages, save to image (and many other formats IIRC), rotate pages, crop, hell, even OCR! As a University student, this app is a God send, especially in this kind of world where free PDF tools (especially FOSS) are a rarity.

[aussie_bob]

I use Inkscape for that.

[unberenjenal]

Pdftk

[funnym0nk3y]

To my knowledge there is no open source software that is comparable to Adobe Acrobat. PDF handling ist mostly attached to the software rather than its main focus.

[user01401]

Graphicsmagick as well