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PDF To Image In Command Line - VBScript and VB6

PDF Renderer SDK sample in VBScript and VB6 demonstrating ‘PDF To Image In Command Line’

PDF_to_Image.bat
@echo off
REM Run VBScript through the command line
REM The script convert first pages of all PDF documents in the outer folder containing sample files (..\..) 
REM   and puts generated images to "output" sub-folder.
cscript.exe "PDF_to_Image.vbs" ..\.. output

pause
PDF_to_Image.vbs
if WScript.Arguments.Length < 2 Then
  WScript.Echo "Usage: cscript PDF_to_Image.vbs <input_folder> <output_folder>"
  WScript.Quit
End If


' Create Bytescout.PDFRenderer.RasterRenderer  object
Set renderer = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDFRenderer.RasterRenderer")
renderer.RegistrationName = "demo"
renderer.RegistrationKey = "demo"

' Render PDF document at 96 DPI - default PC display resolution
' To get higher quality output, set 200, 300 or more
Dim renderingResolution
renderingResolution = 96

' Image format: 0 - BMP; 1 - JPEG; 2 - PNG; 3 - TIFF; 4 - GIF
Dim outputImageFormat
outputImageFormat = 2

Dim pageIndex
pageIndex = 0


' Create File System object
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

' Get folder object (current folder)
Set inputFolder = FSO.GetFolder(WScript.Arguments.Item(0))

' Get file list
Set files = inputFolder.Files

' Prepare output folder
outputFolder = WScript.Arguments.Item(1)
If FSO.FolderExists(outputFolder) Then 
	FSO.DeleteFolder outputFolder, True
End If
FSO.CreateFolder outputFolder 

' Run barcode search for PDF and TIFF files
For Each file in files

	ext = UCase(FSO.GetExtensionName(file))	
	If ext = "PDF" Then
		
		WScript.Echo "Processing file " & FSO.GetFileName(file)
	
		renderer.LoadDocumentFromFile file
		
		fileName = FSO.BuildPath(WScript.Arguments.Item(1), FSO.GetFileName(file) & ".page0.png")
		renderer.Save fileName, outputImageFormat, pageIndex, renderingResolution
		
		WScript.Echo "  first page converted to " & fileName
		
    End If 
Next

WScript.Echo "Done."

Set renderer = Nothing
Set FSO = Nothing

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