Get a preview JPEG of a PDF on Windows?

Question

I have a cross-platform (Python) application which needs to generate a JPEG preview of the first page of a PDF.

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Answer 1

Is the PC likely to have Acrobat installed? I think Acrobat installs a shell extension so previews of the first page of a PDF document appear in Windows Explorer's thumbnail view. You can get thumbnails yourself via the IExtractImage COM API, which you'll need to wrap. VBAccelerator has an example in C# that you could port to Python.