Does thumbnailator support thumbnail generation for pdf files?

[bhupendersinghh]

I want to generate images for pdf files containing multiple pages. Is there a way to leverage thumbnailator for that?

[coobird]

Short answer is no.

Long answer is, if you're able to make a image from a PDF, then yes, you can use Thumbnailator to make a thumbnail of that image. I found an answer in StackOverflow saying that PDFBox can create images, and it sure seems like PDFRenderer can create BufferedImages that Thumbnailator can use as sources for making thumbnails.

[cluth17]

I was able to accomplish this with the following code:

public static Boolean processImage(Path input, Path output, Integer width, Integer height) {  

     PDDocument pdfDoc = PDDocument.load(new File(input.toString()));  
     PDFRenderer pdfRender = new PDFRenderer(pdfDoc);  
     BufferedImage pdfImage = pdfRender.renderImageWithDPI(0, 72);  
     Thumbnails.of(pdfImage).size(width, height).toFile(output.toString());  
     return true;  

}