Thumbnail of a PDF page (Java)
How can I generate a thumbnail image of pages in a PDF document, using Java?
Answer
I think http://pdfbox.apache.org/ will do what you're looking for since you can create an image from a page and then scale the image
From their example code -
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package org.apache.pdfbox;
import java.awt.HeadlessException;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.pdfbox.exceptions.InvalidPasswordException;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.common.PDRectangle;
import org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFImageWriter;
/**
* Convert a PDF document to an image.
*
* @author <a href="[email protected]">Ben Litchfield</a>
* @version $Revision: 1.6 $
*/
public class PDFToImage
{
private static final String PASSWORD = "-password";
private static final String START_PAGE = "-startPage";
private static final String END_PAGE = "-endPage";
private static final String IMAGE_FORMAT = "-imageType";
private static final String OUTPUT_PREFIX = "-outputPrefix";
private static final String COLOR = "-color";
private static final String RESOLUTION = "-resolution";
private static final String CROPBOX = "-cropbox";
/**
* private constructor.
*/
private PDFToImage()
{
//static class
}
/**
* Infamous main method.
*
* @param args Command line arguments, should be one and a reference to a file.
*
* @throws Exception If there is an error parsing the document.
*/
public static void main( String[] args ) throws Exception
{
String password = "";
String pdfFile = null;
String outputPrefix = null;
String imageFormat = "jpg";
int startPage = 1;
int endPage = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
String color = "rgb";
int resolution;
float cropBoxLowerLeftX = 0;
float cropBoxLowerLeftY = 0;
float cropBoxUpperRightX = 0;
float cropBoxUpperRightY = 0;
try
{
resolution = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenResolution();
}
catch( HeadlessException e )
{
resolution = 96;
}
for( int i = 0; i < args.length; i++ )
{
if( args[i].equals( PASSWORD ) )
{
i++;
if( i >= args.length )
{
usage();
}
password = args[i];
}
else if( args[i].equals( START_PAGE ) )
{
i++;
if( i >= args.length )
{
usage();
}
startPage = Integer.parseInt( args[i] );
}
else if( args[i].equals( END_PAGE ) )
{
i++;
if( i >= args.length )
{
usage();
}
endPage = Integer.parseInt( args[i] );
}
else if( args[i].equals( IMAGE_FORMAT ) )
{
i++;
imageFormat = args[i];
}
else if( args[i].equals( OUTPUT_PREFIX ) )
{
i++;
outputPrefix = args[i];
}
else if( args[i].equals( COLOR ) )
{
i++;
color = args[i];
}
else if( args[i].equals( RESOLUTION ) )
{
i++;
resolution = Integer.parseInt(args[i]);
}
else if( args[i].equals( CROPBOX ) )
{
i++;
cropBoxLowerLeftX = Float.valueOf(args[i]).floatValue();
i++;
cropBoxLowerLeftY = Float.valueOf(args[i]).floatValue();
i++;
cropBoxUpperRightX = Float.valueOf(args[i]).floatValue();
i++;
cropBoxUpperRightY = Float.valueOf(args[i]).floatValue();
}
else
{
if( pdfFile == null )
{
pdfFile = args[i];
}
}
}
if( pdfFile == null )
{
usage();
}
else
{
if(outputPrefix == null)
{
outputPrefix = pdfFile.substring( 0, pdfFile.lastIndexOf( '.' ));
}
PDDocument document = null;
try
{
document = PDDocument.load( pdfFile );
//document.print();
if( document.isEncrypted() )
{
try
{
document.decrypt( password );
}
catch( InvalidPasswordException e )
{
if( args.length == 4 )//they supplied the wrong password
{
System.err.println( "Error: The supplied password is incorrect." );
System.exit( 2 );
}
else
{
//they didn't supply a password and the default of "" was wrong.
System.err.println( "Error: The document is encrypted." );
usage();
}
}
}
int imageType = 24;
if ("bilevel".equalsIgnoreCase(color))
{
imageType = BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_BINARY;
}
else if ("indexed".equalsIgnoreCase(color))
{
imageType = BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_INDEXED;
}
else if ("gray".equalsIgnoreCase(color))
{
imageType = BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_GRAY;
}
else if ("rgb".equalsIgnoreCase(color))
{
imageType = BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB;
}
else if ("rgba".equalsIgnoreCase(color))
{
imageType = BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB;
}
else
{
System.err.println( "Error: the number of bits per pixel must be 1, 8 or 24." );
System.exit( 2 );
}
//si une cropBox a ete specifier, appeler la methode de modification de cropbox
//changeCropBoxes(PDDocument document,float a, float b, float c,float d)
if ( cropBoxLowerLeftX!=0 || cropBoxLowerLeftY!=0 || cropBoxUpperRightX!=0 || cropBoxUpperRightY!=0 )
{
changeCropBoxes(document,cropBoxLowerLeftX, cropBoxLowerLeftY, cropBoxUpperRightX, cropBoxUpperRightY);
}
//Make the call
PDFImageWriter imageWriter = new PDFImageWriter();
boolean success = imageWriter.writeImage(document, imageFormat, password,
startPage, endPage, outputPrefix, imageType, resolution);
if (!success)
{
System.err.println( "Error: no writer found for image format '"
+ imageFormat + "'" );
System.exit(1);
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.err.println(e);
}
finally
{
if( document != null )
{
document.close();
}
}
}
}
/**
* This will print the usage requirements and exit.
*/
private static void usage()
{
System.err.println( "Usage: java org.apache.pdfbox.PDFToImage [OPTIONS] <PDF file>\n" +
" -password <password> Password to decrypt document\n" +
" -imageType <image type> (" + getImageFormats() + ")\n" +
" -outputPrefix <output prefix> Filename prefix for image files\n" +
" -startPage <number> The first page to start extraction(1 based)\n" +
" -endPage <number> The last page to extract(inclusive)\n" +
" -color <string> The color depth (valid: bilevel, indexed, gray, rgb, rgba)\n" +
" -resolution <number> The bitmap resolution in dpi\n" +
" -cropbox <number> <number> <number> <number> The page area to export\n" +
" <PDF file> The PDF document to use\n"
);
System.exit( 1 );
}
private static String getImageFormats()
{
StringBuffer retval = new StringBuffer();
String[] formats = ImageIO.getReaderFormatNames();
for( int i = 0; i < formats.length; i++ )
{
retval.append( formats[i] );
if( i + 1 < formats.length )
{
retval.append( "," );
}
}
return retval.toString();
}
private static void changeCropBoxes(PDDocument document,float a, float b, float c,float d)
{
List pages = document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages();
for( int i = 0; i < pages.size(); i++ )
{
System.out.println("resizing page");
PDPage page = (PDPage)pages.get( i );
PDRectangle rectangle = new PDRectangle();
rectangle.setLowerLeftX(a);
rectangle.setLowerLeftY(b);
rectangle.setUpperRightX(c);
rectangle.setUpperRightY(d);
page.setMediaBox(rectangle);
page.setCropBox(rectangle);
}
}
}