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kovidgoyal · 10-31-2025, 11:57 PM

Note that you dont need to rely on ghostscipt, calibre already contains code to render PDF files (this is how the functionality to view the first 10 pages of a PDF to select the cover is implemented). See the page_images() function in metadata/pdf.py

10-31-2025, 11:57 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 46,070 Karma: 29579912 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Note that you dont need to rely on ghostscipt, calibre already contains code to render PDF files (this is how the functionality to view the first 10 pages of a PDF to select the cover is implemented). See the page_images() function in metadata/pdf.py