convert:not authorized `aaaa` @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/453

Question

I want to create a captcha pic by use convert from ImageMagick.

And I follow this, but there are some problem .

Input In my linux shell:

Answer 1

I had this error when trying to convert a pdf to jpg and solved it using this method: sudo vi /etc/ImageMagick*/policy.xml

change:

policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="PDF"

to:

policy domain="coder" rights="read|write" pattern="PDF"

Source: http://realtechtalk.com/ImageMagick_Convert_PDF_Not_Authorized-2217-articles