How to convert any Document File into PNG Array in Python

With today’s setup, you will be able to easily convert a nice range of document file types into arrays of PNG images. As an added bonus, the entire process only takes a handful of minutes. It begins with pip install:

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

And now that we have our client, we can formulate our function call. Here’s a general idea of how that can be structured:

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_convert_api_client
from cloudmersive_convert_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ConvertDocumentApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input_file = '/path/to/file' # file | Input file to perform the operation on.
try:
# Convert Document to PNG array
api_response = api_instance.convert_document_autodetect_to_png_array(input_file)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling ConvertDocumentApi->convert_document_autodetect_to_png_array: %s\n" % e)

This function will automatically detect the format of your input file, and then perform the necessary steps to convert it into PNG image form, with one image for each page.