Best Practice to Python Convert PDF to Images for Beginners – Python Tutorial

To convert pdf to images, we can use ImageMagick + Wand library or ImageMagick + PythonMagick library, you also can use poppler + pdf2image. However, this python library depends on other application. In this tutorial, we will use a pure python library PyMuPDF to convert pdf files to images.

Install python library

pip install PyMuPDF

Import python library

import sys, fitz

Set pdf file path

pdf = 'e:\\lshort-cn.pdf'

Convert pdf to png page by page

doc = fitz.open(pdf)                        # open document
for page in doc:                            # iterate through the pages
    pix = page.getPixmap(alpha = False)     # render page to an image
    pix.writePNG("page-%i.png" % page.number)

Then you will find this pdf has converted images.