[poppler] PDF to PNG conversion

[Jonathan Kew]

Not a direct answer to your question, but I'm puzzled why you can't just 
use Ghostscript under the GNU AGPL license? (Are you modifying it, and 
unwilling to release your modified version?)

On 26/06/2019 16:00, Allan Jensen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been using Ghostscript to convert PDF files (that have been 
> created with PDFlib) to PNG images, but have found that out that we need 
> to a commercial license - and it is outrageously expensive (like $10k/yr 
> minimum!).
> 
> So in my search for viable alternatives I came across Poppler (and 
> xpdf). I need to do the conversion on a Linux system (specifically 64bit 
> Amazon Linux/2.8.2). Can I use Poppler for this purpose, and if so how 
> would I go about it?
> 
> I'm a web programmer so I'm not much into C++ and those low-level 
> languages. My web languages are PHP and Node.js, and I found this PHP 
> wrapper: https://github.com/php-poppler/php-poppler - but I'm not sure 
> how to install Poppler. Anyone who can help me with that?
> 
> Regards,
> Allan Jensen
> 
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