pdftocairo

Converts PDF files to PNG/JPEG/TIFF/PDF/PS/EPS/SVG using cairo. More information: <https://poppler.freedesktop.org>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/pdftocairo.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install poppler-utils
Ubuntu
apt-get install poppler-utils
Alpine
apk add poppler
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S poppler
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install poppler-utils
CentOS
yum install poppler-utils
Fedora
dnf install poppler-utils
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install poppler-utils
OS X
brew install poppler
Raspbian
apt-get install poppler-utils
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/pdftocairo
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/pdftocairo pdftocairo powered by Commando

Converts PDF files to PNG/JPEG/TIFF/PDF/PS/EPS/SVG using cairo. More information: <https://poppler.freedesktop.org>.

  • Convert a PDF file to JPEG:
    pdftocairo path/to/file.pdf -jpeg
  • Convert to PDF expanding the output to fill the paper:
    pdftocairo path/to/file.pdf output.pdf -pdf -expand
  • Convert to SVG specifying the first/last page to convert:
    pdftocairo path/to/file.pdf output.svg -svg -f first_page -l last_page
  • Convert to PNG with 200ppi resolution:
    pdftocairo path/to/file.pdf output.png -png -r 200
  • Convert to grayscale TIFF setting paper size to A3:
    pdftocairo path/to/file.pdf -tiff -gray -paper A3
  • Convert to PNG cropping x and y pixels from the top-left corner:
    pdftocairo path/to/file.pdf -png -x x_pixels -y y_pixels

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