Generate a PDF page thumbnail using JavaScript

To create a PDF page thumbnail in multiple image formats.

async function main() {
  const doc = await PDFNet.PDFDoc.createFromURL(filename);

  // set the output resolution
  const pdfdraw = await PDFNet.PDFDraw.create(92);

  // Rasterize the first page in the document and save the result as PNG.
  const pg = await doc.getPage(1);
  const buf = await pdfdraw.exportStream(pg, 'PNG');

  //optionally save the blob to a file or upload to a server
  const blob = new Blob([buf], { type: 'application/pdf' });
}
PDFNet.runWithCleanup(main);

Convert PDF to image (JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF)
Full code sample illustrates how to use the built-in rasterizer in order to render PDF images on the fly and how to save resulting images in PNG and JPEG format.

More image format options:

• "RAW" : RAW format.

  There are four possibilities:

  • e_rgba - if transparent and color page;
  • e_gray_alpha - if transparent and gray page;
  • e_rgb - if opaque and color page;
  • e_gray - if opaque and gray page. NOTE that if page is set to be transparent (SetPageTransparent), the output color channels are already multiplied by the alpha channel.

• "BMP" : Bitmap image format (BMP)

• "JPEG" : Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) image format

• "PNG" : 24-bit W3C Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format

• "PNG8" : 8-bit, palettized PNG format. The exported file size should be smaller than the one generated using "PNG", possibly at the expense of some image quality.

• "TIFF" : Tag Image File Format (TIFF) image format.

• "TIFF8" : Tag Image File Format (TIFF) image format (with 8-bit palete).