import PDF convert to raster.

[theoryshaw]

Would there be a relatively easy way to use something like Ghostscript and/or ImageMagick to convert an uploaded (or drag and dropped) PDF to a background raster image?

[theoryshaw]

perhaps https://github.com/yourdeveloper/node-imagemagick ? or https://github.com/aheckmann/gm?

[bytesnz]

There is also https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdf2json and https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdf for converting PDFs to json (for canvas) or to images. Would need to look into benefits/drawbacks. Would probably be worth testing the libraries to see if there are any gotchas.

[theoryshaw]

I like that pdf2json taps into pdf.js--a project with a lot of momentum behind, it seems.

[theoryshaw]

Ran across this too: https://github.com/mooz/node-pdf-image