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I am looking for a solution to extract the first page of PDF files
on Windows as an image without having to install Ghostscript (too ´huge dependency).
I tried ImageMagick (convert) but this delegates also to Ghostscript.
Are there some other self-contained tools for performing this task on Windows?
For the integration I am looking for a solution that is either directly
available on the Python level or through an os.system() call or similar.
I’d suggest Poppler or MuPDF. Later provides binary for Windows and from my experience (on Linux though) is very efficient. Poppler is licensed GPLv2, MuPDF is GPLv3.
Update: Unfortunately MuPDF switched to Affero GPLv3 since version 1.2.