Question

This has been asked many times, i’m sure, but i was curious if it’s possible to upload a PDF to some site, keep it private, and get back HTML/CSS? Or, is there a way with ColdFusion to do this? It needs to be damn near the same as the PDF. I heard through a developer at a hackathon there was a PDF converter that uses the Webkit engine, but i wasn’t sure where to find that or how it worked.

Thanks in advance (and no, i have to use coldfusion)!

Answer 1

You may generate an Image of PDF using <cfpdf> (for ColdFusion 8 or above)

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7995.html

<!--- Generate thumbnails from pages in a PDF document --->
<cfpdf
    required
    action = "thumbnail"
    source = "absolute or relative pathname to a PDF file|PDF document variable|
        cfdocument variable"
    optional
    destination = "directory path where the thumbnail images are written"
    format = "png|jpeg|tiff"
    imagePrefix = "string used as a prefix in the output filename"
    overwrite = "yes|no"
    password = "PDF source file password"
    pages = "page or pages to make into thumbnails"
    resolution= "low|high"
    scale = "percentage between 1 and 100"
    transparent = "yes|no">

FYI, <cfpdf> is currently powered by iText