how to read pdf as image

i want the contents of pdf to be shown in image format

[Geoff Hayes]

Madhvi - please provide more details. What is it that you wish to accomplish? If your pdf has several pages, should each page be a separate image?

[Akhil Shetty]

Hi Geoff,

The last line of your question is exactly my requirement.

I have a set of scanned documents saved as a pdf (about 50 pages). I want to save each page as an image so that I can process each image (page) separately.

Is there a way to achieve this??

[Rik]

Using an external tool seems to be the best strategy. You can compose the required commands as strings, use system an read the resulting png as normal.

If you use GhostScript you can even be fairly platform-independent.

Answer 1

[Sagar Hukkire]

Hi Madhvi

Please have a look to this answer. Extracting data from pdf files - MATLAB Answers - MATLAB Central (mathworks.com)

This is exactly you are looking I guess ( to get text from scan pdf). Please let us know if you need further help on it

Thanks

Sagar