Generate Thumbnail Images from PDF Documents

Jonathan Hodgson

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This article presents VB.NET code to create thumbnail images from a directory of Adobe Acrobat PDF documents using the .NET Framework.

pdfthumbnailcsharp_src.zip
- C#
  - 01-Welcome.pdf
  - 01-Welcome.png
  - 20-QualityLandscape.pdf
  - 20-QualityLandscape.png
  - PDFThumbnailCsharp
    - app.config
    - App.ico
    - AssemblyInfo.cs
    - bin
      - Release
        
        Interop.Acrobat.dll
        
        pdftemplate_landscape.gif
        
        pdftemplate_portrait.gif
        
        PDFThumbnailCsharp.exe
        
        PDFThumbnailCsharp.exe.config
    - pdftemplate_landscape.gif
    - pdftemplate_portrait.gif
    - PDFThumbnailCsharp.cs
    - PDFThumbnailCsharp.csproj
    - PDFThumbnailCsharp.csproj.user
    - PDFThumbnailCsharp.sln
pdfthumbnail_src.zip
- Thumbnails
  - 01-Welcome.pdf
  - 01-Welcome.png
  - 20-QualityLandscape.pdf
  - 20-QualityLandscape.png
  - PDFThumbnail
    - app.config
    - AssemblyInfo.vb
    - bin
      - Interop.Acrobat.dll
      - pdftemplate_landscape.gif
      - pdftemplate_portrait.gif
      - PDFThumbnail.exe
      - PDFThumbnail.exe.config
      - PDFThumbnail.xml
    - pdftemplate_landscape.gif
    - pdftemplate_portrait.gif
    - PDFThumbnail.sln
    - pdfThumbnail.vb
    - PDFThumbnail.vbproj
    - PDFThumbnail.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
<doc>
  <assembly>
    <name>PDFThumbnail</name>
    <version>1.0.1479.42171</version>
    <fullname>PDFThumbnail, Version=1.0.1479.42171, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null</fullname>
  </assembly>
  <members />
</doc>

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Jonathan Hodgson

Web Developer

United Kingdom

Jonathan Hodgson works as Software Developer in London, UK.

He started programming in the '80s on a trusty 48k Spectrum before moving to PC development in the early 90s. During the working week most of his time is spent involved in application development both Windows and Web-based; .NET, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server.

He is a Microsoft Certified Software Developer (MCSD) and MCP for developing web applications using ASP.NET in C# and is always looking for new projects and challenges to work on.

http://www.jonathanhodgson.co.uk/

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