alternative for the appengine conversion api which was decommissioned November 2012
provides a webservice to convert pdf -> image & image -> image
integrates Ghostscript & ImageMagick with a thin NodeJS web wrapper with easy deployment on Heroku (free!)
released under a Apache 2.0 style license
simply method=POST enctype=multipart/form-data
an uploaded file to the server, with some arguments, and it'll return the result
view AppEngine Java for an example Java client that saves output to the blobstore
- install the heroku toolbelt and setup your account
- read these directions for setting up a NodeJS app
-
git clone
this repo -
heroku create
to create an appserver -
git push heroku master
to push this code up to heroku heroku config:add NODE_ENV=production
-
heroku ps:scale web=1
to start the server -
http://yourapp.herokuapp.com/upload.html
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- see above for setting up the toolbelt and cloning this repo
-
sudo npm install -g nodemon
to install nodemon globally -
npm install
to install the rest of the node dependencies locally -
brew install ghostscript
&&brew install imagemagick
- you will need to install brew first -
foreman start
to start the server -
http://localhost:5000/
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documentation on how Ghostscript/ImageMagick can be compiled on Heroku