How to generate thumbnails from a PDF document with iPhone SDK?
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Solution 1
Here is my sample code.
NSURL* pdfFileUrl = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:finalPath];
CGPDFDocumentRef pdf = CGPDFDocumentCreateWithURL((CFURLRef)pdfFileUrl);
CGPDFPageRef page;
CGRect aRect = CGRectMake(0, 0, 70, 100); // thumbnail size
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(aRect.size);
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
UIImage* thumbnailImage;
NSUInteger totalNum = CGPDFDocumentGetNumberOfPages(pdf);
for(int i = 0; i < totalNum; i++ ) {
CGContextSaveGState(context);
CGContextTranslateCTM(context, 0.0, aRect.size.height);
CGContextScaleCTM(context, 1.0, -1.0);
CGContextSetGrayFillColor(context, 1.0, 1.0);
CGContextFillRect(context, aRect);
// Grab the first PDF page
page = CGPDFDocumentGetPage(pdf, i + 1);
CGAffineTransform pdfTransform = CGPDFPageGetDrawingTransform(page, kCGPDFMediaBox, aRect, 0, true);
// And apply the transform.
CGContextConcatCTM(context, pdfTransform);
CGContextDrawPDFPage(context, page);
// Create the new UIImage from the context
thumbnailImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
//Use thumbnailImage (e.g. drawing, saving it to a file, etc)
CGContextRestoreGState(context);
}
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
CGPDFDocumentRelease(pdf);
Solution 2
From iOS 11 you can use PDFKit
.
import PDFKit
func generatePdfThumbnail(of thumbnailSize: CGSize , for documentUrl: URL, atPage pageIndex: Int) -> UIImage? {
let pdfDocument = PDFDocument(url: documentUrl)
let pdfDocumentPage = pdfDocument?.page(at: pageIndex)
return pdfDocumentPage?.thumbnail(of: thumbnailSize, for: PDFDisplayBox.trimBox)
}
Call it:
let thumbnailSize = CGSize(width: 100, height: 100)
let thumbnail = generatePdfThumbnail(of: thumbnailSize, for: url, atPage: 0)
Solution 3
Starting with iOS 11 where PDFKit framework became available, you can get a thumbnail as simply as:
import PDFKit
func pdfThumbnail(url: URL, width: CGFloat = 240) -> UIImage? {
guard let data = try? Data(contentsOf: url),
let page = PDFDocument(data: data)?.page(at: 0) else {
return nil
}
let pageSize = page.bounds(for: .mediaBox)
let pdfScale = width / pageSize.width
// Apply if you're displaying the thumbnail on screen
let scale = UIScreen.main.scale * pdfScale
let screenSize = CGSize(width: pageSize.width * scale,
height: pageSize.height * scale)
return page.thumbnail(of: screenSize, for: .mediaBox)
}
Solution 4
In the meantime I have created a library which does support PDF, Images and Videos for creating thumbnails. Maybe someone else can use it:
https://github.com/prine/ROThumbnailGenerator
Solution in Swift. Just pass the NSURL to the PDF and the page number you want to retrieve as UIImage:
func getThumbnail(url:NSURL, pageNumber:Int) -> UIImage {
var pdf:CGPDFDocumentRef = CGPDFDocumentCreateWithURL(url as CFURLRef);
var firstPage = CGPDFDocumentGetPage(pdf, pageNumber)
// Change the width of the thumbnail here
var width:CGFloat = 240.0;
var pageRect:CGRect = CGPDFPageGetBoxRect(firstPage, kCGPDFMediaBox);
var pdfScale:CGFloat = width/pageRect.size.width;
pageRect.size = CGSizeMake(pageRect.size.width*pdfScale, pageRect.size.height*pdfScale);
pageRect.origin = CGPointZero;
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(pageRect.size);
var context:CGContextRef = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
// White BG
CGContextSetRGBFillColor(context, 1.0,1.0,1.0,1.0);
CGContextFillRect(context,pageRect);
CGContextSaveGState(context);
// ***********
// Next 3 lines makes the rotations so that the page look in the right direction
// ***********
CGContextTranslateCTM(context, 0.0, pageRect.size.height);
CGContextScaleCTM(context, 1.0, -1.0);
CGContextConcatCTM(context, CGPDFPageGetDrawingTransform(firstPage, kCGPDFMediaBox, pageRect, 0, true));
CGContextDrawPDFPage(context, firstPage);
CGContextRestoreGState(context);
var thm:UIImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
return thm;
}
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fvisticot
Updated on June 11, 2022Comments
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fvisticot almost 2 years
I have read the Apple PDF documentation with Quartz.
But I do not know how to generate the thumbnails from a PDF document...
Any idea/sample code ?