I am trying to upload both a full pdf and a jpg thumbnail of the first page to a MySQL data base but I am having no luck. I am using the following sub routine: 
sub read_image_file
{
my $fh = shift;                # filename/file handle
my $img = new Image::Magick;

my ($full, $thumb, $err);

    # read full-size image directly from upload file
    (read ($fh, $full, -s $fh) == -s $fh)
        or error ("Can't read image file: $!");
        
    # produce jpg from pdf (this is where i'm lost because i get a can
+'t convert error)

    # produce thumbnail from full-size image
    $err = $img->BlobToImage ($full);
    error ("Can't convert image data: $err") if $err;
    $err = $img->Scale (geometry => "150x194");
    error ("Can't scale image file: $err") if $err;
    $thumb = $img->ImageToBlob ();
    return ($full, $thumb);
}

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This works ok with images but not with PDFs. My guess is I need to do some kind of conversion to the PDF but can figure out how. Thanks in advance for any help. Rich

In reply to PDF to JPG for MySQL by rich731

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