PowerShell function to convert pdf to jpg using GhostScript

#Here is an example on how to call this function to convert pdf to jpg.

#convert-PdfToImage -OriginalFile "$home\Pictures\PayStubSinglePage.pdf" -NewFile "$home\Pictures\PayStubSinglePage.jpg"

 

Function convert-PdfToImage {

    [CmdletBinding()]

    Param(  [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)] [string]$OriginalFile,

            [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)] [string]$NewFile)

    #Path to your Ghostscript EXE

    $tool = 'C:\Users\Greg\Programming\GhostScript\bin\gswin64c.exe'

   

    #Directory containing the PDF files that will be converted

    $inputDir = $OriginalFile

 

    #Output path where the TIF files will be saved

    $outputDir = $NewFile

 

    $pdf = get-childitem $OriginalFile

    $jpg = $outputDir

    Remove-Item $jpg -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

    'Processing ' + $pdf.Name       

    $param = "-sOutputFile=$jpg"

    & $tool -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=jpeg $param -r1200 $pdf.FullName -c quit

    #& "$tool" "-q -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMT -sDEVICE=jpeg $param -r1200 $pdf.FullName -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 dGridFitTT=2 -sDEVICE=pngalpha -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -c quit"

    #& "$tool" "-q -dNOPAUSE -dQuiet -dSAFER -dNOPROMT -sDEVICE=jpeg $param -r1200 $pdf.FullName -c quit"

    #& "$tool -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=jpeg -sOutputFile=image%d.jpg -dJPEGQ=100 -r300x300 -q C:\Users\Greg\Pictures\PayStubSinglePage.pdf -c quit"

    #& "$tool" "-q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=jpeg -r350 dJPEGQ=100 $pdf.FullName -sOutputFile=C:\Users\Greg\Pictures\PayStubSinglePage.jpg -c quit"

    #& "$tool" "- -q -dQuiet -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 dGridFitTT=2 -sDEVICE=pngalpha -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -sOutputFile=C:\Users\Greg\Pictures\PayStubSinglePage.jpg -f $pdf.FullName" 

}