Convert a PDF file to image

Question 1

You can easily convert 04-Request-Headers.pdf file pages into image format.

Convert all pdf pages into image format in Java using PDF Box.

Solution for Apache PDFBox 1.8.* version:

or the maven dependency

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.pdfbox</groupId>
    <artifactId>pdfbox</artifactId>
    <version>1.8.3</version>
</dependency>

Here is the solution:

package com.pdf.pdfbox.examples;

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.List;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage;

@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public class ConvertPDFPagesToImages {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
        String sourceDir = "C:/Documents/04-Request-Headers.pdf"; // Pdf files are read from this folder
        String destinationDir = "C:/Documents/Converted_PdfFiles_to_Image/"; // converted images from pdf document are saved here

        File sourceFile = new File(sourceDir);
        File destinationFile = new File(destinationDir);
        if (!destinationFile.exists()) {
            destinationFile.mkdir();
            System.out.println("Folder Created -> "+ destinationFile.getAbsolutePath());
        }
        if (sourceFile.exists()) {
            System.out.println("Images copied to Folder: "+ destinationFile.getName());             
            PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(sourceDir);
            List<PDPage> list = document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages();
            System.out.println("Total files to be converted -> "+ list.size());

            String fileName = sourceFile.getName().replace(".pdf", "");             
            int pageNumber = 1;
            for (PDPage page : list) {
                BufferedImage image = page.convertToImage();
                File outputfile = new File(destinationDir + fileName +"_"+ pageNumber +".png");
                System.out.println("Image Created -> "+ outputfile.getName());
                ImageIO.write(image, "png", outputfile);
                pageNumber++;
            }
            document.close();
            System.out.println("Converted Images are saved at -> "+ destinationFile.getAbsolutePath());
        } else {
            System.err.println(sourceFile.getName() +" File not exists");
        }

    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}
}

Possible conversions of image into jpg, jpeg, png, bmp, gif format.

Note: I mentioned the mainly used image formats.

ImageIO.write(image , "jpg", new File( destinationDir +fileName+"_"+pageNumber+".jpg" ));
ImageIO.write(image , "jpeg", new File( destinationDir +fileName+"_"+pageNumber+".jpeg" ));
ImageIO.write(image , "png", new File( destinationDir +fileName+"_"+pageNumber+".png" ));
ImageIO.write(image , "bmp", new File( destinationDir +fileName+"_"+pageNumber+".bmp" ));
ImageIO.write(image , "gif", new File( destinationDir +fileName+"_"+pageNumber+".gif" ));

Console Output:

Images copied to Folder: Converted_PdfFiles_to_Image
Total files to be converted -> 13
Aug 06, 2014 1:35:49 PM org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine processOperator
INFO: unsupported/disabled operation: i
Image Created -> 04-Request-Headers_1.png
Aug 06, 2014 1:35:50 PM org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine processOperator
INFO: unsupported/disabled operation: i
Image Created -> 04-Request-Headers_2.png
Aug 06, 2014 1:35:51 PM org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine processOperator
INFO: unsupported/disabled operation: i
Image Created -> 04-Request-Headers_3.png
Aug 06, 2014 1:35:51 PM org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine processOperator
INFO: unsupported/disabled operation: i
Image Created -> 04-Request-Headers_4.png
Aug 06, 2014 1:35:52 PM org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine processOperator
INFO: unsupported/disabled operation: i
Image Created -> 04-Request-Headers_5.png
Aug 06, 2014 1:35:52 PM org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine processOperator
INFO: unsupported/disabled operation: i
Image Created -> 04-Request-Headers_6.png
Aug 06, 2014 1:35:53 PM org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine processOperator
INFO: unsupported/disabled operation: i
Image Created -> 04-Request-Headers_7.png
Aug 06, 2014 1:35:53 PM org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine processOperator
INFO: unsupported/disabled operation: i
Image Created -> 04-Request-Headers_8.png
Aug 06, 2014 1:35:54 PM org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine processOperator
INFO: unsupported/disabled operation: i
Image Created -> 04-Request-Headers_9.png
Aug 06, 2014 1:35:54 PM org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine processOperator
INFO: unsupported/disabled operation: i
Image Created -> 04-Request-Headers_10.png
Aug 06, 2014 1:35:54 PM org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine processOperator
INFO: unsupported/disabled operation: i
Image Created -> 04-Request-Headers_11.png
Aug 06, 2014 1:35:55 PM org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine processOperator
INFO: unsupported/disabled operation: i
Image Created -> 04-Request-Headers_12.png
Aug 06, 2014 1:35:55 PM org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine processOperator
INFO: unsupported/disabled operation: i
Image Created -> 04-Request-Headers_13.png
Converted Images are saved at -> C:\Documents\Converted_PdfFiles_to_Image

Solution for Apache PDFBox 2.0.* version:

Required Jars pdfbox-2.0.16.jar, fontbox-2.0.16.jar, commons-logging-1.2.jar

or from the pom.xml dependencies

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.pdfbox/pdfbox -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.pdfbox</groupId>
    <artifactId>pdfbox</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.16</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.pdfbox/fontbox -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.pdfbox</groupId>
    <artifactId>fontbox</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.16</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-logging/commons-logging -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
    <version>1.2</version>
</dependency>

Solution for 2.0.16 version:

package com.pdf.pdfbox.examples;

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.rendering.ImageType;
import org.apache.pdfbox.rendering.PDFRenderer;

/**
 * 
 * @author venkataudaykiranp
 * 
 * @version 2.0.16(Apache PDFBox version support)
 *
 */
public class ConvertPDFPagesToImages {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            String sourceDir = "C:\\Users\\venkataudaykiranp\\Downloads\\04-Request-Headers.pdf"; // Pdf files are read from this folder
            String destinationDir = "C:\\Users\\venkataudaykiranp\\Downloads\\Converted_PdfFiles_to_Image/"; // converted images from pdf document are saved here

            File sourceFile = new File(sourceDir);
            File destinationFile = new File(destinationDir);
            if (!destinationFile.exists()) {
                destinationFile.mkdir();
                System.out.println("Folder Created -> "+ destinationFile.getAbsolutePath());
            }
            if (sourceFile.exists()) {
                System.out.println("Images copied to Folder Location: "+ destinationFile.getAbsolutePath());             
                PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(sourceFile);
                PDFRenderer pdfRenderer = new PDFRenderer(document);

                int numberOfPages = document.getNumberOfPages();
                System.out.println("Total files to be converting -> "+ numberOfPages);

                String fileName = sourceFile.getName().replace(".pdf", "");             
                String fileExtension= "png";
                /*
                 * 600 dpi give good image clarity but size of each image is 2x times of 300 dpi.
                 * Ex:  1. For 300dpi 04-Request-Headers_2.png expected size is 797 KB
                 *      2. For 600dpi 04-Request-Headers_2.png expected size is 2.42 MB
                 */
                int dpi = 300;// use less dpi for to save more space in harddisk. For professional usage you can use more than 300dpi 

                for (int i = 0; i < numberOfPages; ++i) {
                    File outPutFile = new File(destinationDir + fileName +"_"+ (i+1) +"."+ fileExtension);
                    BufferedImage bImage = pdfRenderer.renderImageWithDPI(i, dpi, ImageType.RGB);
                    ImageIO.write(bImage, fileExtension, outPutFile);
                }

                document.close();
                System.out.println("Converted Images are saved at -> "+ destinationFile.getAbsolutePath());
            } else {
                System.err.println(sourceFile.getName() +" File not exists");
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Question 2

You can try to use NonSequentialParser to avoid errors with some PDF files (with incremental updates):

PDDocument doc = PDDocument.loadNonSeq(new File("/document.pdf"));

Question 3

The way over PDFBox is a good way to avoid native bindings. Try to use the PDFImageWriter from the PDFBox, i did the same with it in a few lines and it worked perfectly. You have to extract the PDFDocument and use the writer with it.

PDFImageWriter.write(doc, "png", null, , Integer.MAX_VALUE, "picture");

For all pages.

PDFImageWriter.write(doc, "png", null, 0, 0, "picture");

See: PDFImageWriter Javadoc

Question 4

Probably you have try to convert corrupted PDF file. I've the same errors when the PDF file contains JPXEncoded streams.

Question 5

You can easily convert PDF into image using PDFBox. renderImageWithDPI method of PDFRenderer class of PDFBox is used to convert pdf to image.

PDDocument doc=PDDocument.load(new File("filepath/sample.pdf"));
PDFRenderer pdfRenderer = new PDFRenderer(doc);
BufferedImage bffim = pdfRenderer.renderImageWithDPI(pageNo, 300, ImageType.RGB);
        String fileName = "image-" + page + ".png";
        ImageIOUtil.writeImage(bim, fileName, 300);

Question 6

 try {           
                PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(PdfInfo.getPDFWAY());
                if (document.isEncrypted()) {
                    document.decrypt(PdfInfo.getPASSWORD());
                }
                if ("bilevel".equalsIgnoreCase(PdfInfo.getCOLOR())) {
                    PdfInfo.setIMAGETYPE( BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_BINARY);
                } else if ("indexed".equalsIgnoreCase(PdfInfo.getCOLOR())) {
                    PdfInfo.setIMAGETYPE(BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_INDEXED);
                } else if ("gray".equalsIgnoreCase(PdfInfo.getCOLOR())) {
                    PdfInfo.setIMAGETYPE(BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_GRAY);
                } else if ("rgb".equalsIgnoreCase(PdfInfo.getCOLOR())) {
                    PdfInfo.setIMAGETYPE(BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
                } else if ("rgba".equalsIgnoreCase(PdfInfo.getCOLOR())) {
                    PdfInfo.setIMAGETYPE(BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
                } else {
                    System.exit(2);
                }
                PDFImageWriter imageWriter = new PDFImageWriter();
                boolean success = imageWriter.writeImage(document, PdfInfo.getIMAGE_FORMAT(),PdfInfo.getPASSWORD(),
                        PdfInfo.getSTART_PAGE(),PdfInfo.getEND_PAGE(),PdfInfo.getOUTPUT_PREFIX(),PdfInfo.getIMAGETYPE(),PdfInfo.getRESOLUTION());
                if (!success) {
                    System.exit(1);
                }
                document.close();

        } catch (IOException | CryptographyException | InvalidPasswordException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(PdfToImae.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
public class PdfInfo {
    private static String PDFWAY;    
    private static String OUTPUT_PREFIX;
    private static String PASSWORD;
    private static int START_PAGE=1;
    private static int END_PAGE=Integer.MAX_VALUE;
    private static String IMAGE_FORMAT="jpg";
    private static String COLOR="rgb";
    private static int RESOLUTION=256;
    private static int IMAGETYPE=24;
    private static String filename;
    private static String filePath="";
}

Question 7

For the error:

org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine processOperator INFO: unsupported/disabled operation

You need to include fontbox-1.7.1 jar in the class path apart from Apache pdfbox jar which will fix your issue as PDFBox internally uses fontbox-1.7.1