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Turn a PDF into page thumbnails

Level: Intermediate
OS:
  • OS X
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Solaris
Programs:
  • ImageMagick

To create thumbnails of every page in a PDF:

convert -geometry 180x180 -trim in.pdf out.png

To tile the thumbnails:

montage -tile 6x -geometry +0+0 *.png combined.png
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