Extracting PDF thumbnails

Question

We have a crossplatfrom (Windows, Linux, OS X, App Engine) Python application using reportlab to create PDF files, which include thumbnails (as seen in Acrobat Reader).

Is there a way to extract these thumbnails from the PDF file for document managment purposes (without rendering the pages themself with Ghostscript, MuPDF)?

Answer 1

PDF doesn't contain thumbnails so there is nothing to extract. You will have to use some 3rd library like Ghostscript or MuPDF to rasterize each page.