How to convert pdf to image to pdf on linux

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Installation pdftoppm

To use the pdftoppm command-line tool, you need to first install pdftoppm which is a part of the poppler / poppler-utils / poppler-tools package. Install this package as follows depending on your Linux distribution

On Debian

sudo apt install poppler-utils

On RHEL/CentOS & Fedora

sudo dnf install poppler-utils

On Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S poppler

Convert

PDF Document to Image

pdftoppm -<image_format> <pdf_filename> <image_name>

more detials

Installation Imagemagick (image to pdf)

On Debian

sudo apt install imagemagick

On RHEL/CentOS & Fedora

sudo dnf install imagemagick

Read/Write Issue

In that case, all you need is to edit the policy.xml file using an editor like vim.

sudo vim /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml

Look for the line in the following example:

<policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="PDF" />

To fix the error, replace the rights from “none” to “read|write”

Convert

To jpg to pdf

convert *.jpg all.pdf