Simple PHP Class and command line script for splitting a PDF file into several PNG pages

This class requires PHP 5.3 or later, and the imagick pecl extension (see http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.imagick.php).

This class allows for simple splitting of a multi-page PDF into several PNG files, with each page from the PDF being saved as a seperate PNG file.

Generated files are named with the name of the master / source PDF file, an incrementing number, and the a PNG extension. So, if provided a PDF file with 10 pages in it named "example.pdf", this class would write 10 pngs, named "example-1.png" through "example-10.png", in the specified directory.

A sample, command line tool for use with the class is also included. This file, "pdf_splitter.php", requires the PEAR Console_Getargs package (see http://pear.php.net/package/Console_Getargs). Information on using this tool is available by running "php pdf_splitter.php --help" on the command line.

Peter E. Snyder - [email protected]