How to handle multi-page images in PythonMagick?

Question

I want to convert some multi-pages .tif or .pdf files to individual .png images. From command line (using ImageMagick) I just do:

convert multi_page.pdf file_out         


        

Answer 1

A more complete example based on the answer by Ivo Flipse and http://p-s.co.nz/wordpress/pdf-to-png-using-pythonmagick/

This uses a higher resolution and uses PyPDF2 instead of older pyPDF.

import sys
import PyPDF2
import PythonMagick

pdffilename = sys.argv[1] 
pdf_im = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(file(pdffilename, "rb"))
npage = pdf_im.getNumPages()
print('Converting %d pages.' % npage)
for p in range(npage):
    im = PythonMagick.Image()
    im.density('300')
    im.read(pdffilename + '[' + str(p) +']')
    im.write('file_out-' + str(p)+ '.png')