How to execute ImageMagick to convert only the first page of the multipage PDF to JPEG?

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Vineesh Kalarickal picture Vineesh Kalarickal · Sep 27, 2012 · Viewed 25.9k times · Source

How do I execute ImageMagick's convert if I want a JPEG from the first page only of a multi-page PDF?

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Arkadiusz 'flies' Rzadkowolski picture Arkadiusz 'flies' Rzadkowolski · Sep 27, 2012

If you are using a convert command line you can execute it with these parameters:

convert  source.pdf[0]  output.jpeg

Note that the page count of ImageMagick is 0-based. So [0] means 'page 1'. To select, say the 4th page, you'd have to use [3].

This syntax does not only work for PDF input. It also works with other multi-page or mult-frame formats, such as multi-page TIFF or animated multi-frame GIFs and PNGs.

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