ByteScout PDF Renderer SDK – VBScript and VB6 – PDF To Image In Command Line

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PDF to image in command line in VBScript and VB6 with ByteScout PDF Renderer SDK

PDF to image in command line in VBScript and VB6

These source code samples are listed and grouped by their programming language and functions they use. ByteScout PDF Renderer SDK helps with PDF to image in command line in VBScript and VB6. ByteScout PDF Renderer SDK is the library that renders PDF into high quality images and thumbnails. Includes various functions like batch processing, PNG, TIFF output. Can be used from web and desktop applications.

The SDK samples like this one below explain how to quickly make your application do PDF to image in command line in VBScript and VB6 with the help of ByteScout PDF Renderer SDK. Follow the instruction from the scratch to work and copy and paste code for VBScript and VB6 into your editor. Enhanced documentation and tutorials are available along with installed ByteScout PDF Renderer SDK if you’d like to dive deeper into the topic and the details of the API.

Our website provides free trial version of ByteScout PDF Renderer SDK. It comes along with all these source code samples with the goal to help you with your VBScript and VB6 application implementation.

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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

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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