ImageMagick not converting pdfs anymore in AWS Lambda

Question

I\'ve had a AWS Lambda function running on S3 objects for the last 18 months and it died around a month ago after a minor update. I\'ve reverted it but it\'s still broken. I\'ve

Answer 1

I had the same problem. Two cloud services processing thousands of PDF pages a day failing because of the pdf.la not found error.

The solution was to switch from Image Magick to GhostScript to convert PDFs to PNGs and then use ImageMagick with PNGs (if needed). This way, IM never has to deal with PDFs and wont need the pdf.la file.

To use GhostScript on AWS Lambda just upload the gs binary in the function zip file.