pdf2image - AWS Lambda API

About:

A stand alone microservice written in Python3.8 for AWS Lambda to convert pages of a .pdf file into images. This microservice is written with the help of pdf2image.py. pdf2image.py is a Python module that wraps pdftoppm and pdftocairo to convert PDF to a PIL Image object.

Instructions:

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/shibisuriya/pdf2image-AWS-Lambda-API.git

Run package.sh

chmod 777 ./package.sh
./package.sh

Or zip the /src folder manually...

Create an AWS Lambda function

Upload the generated package.zip file to AWS Lambda

Configure AWS API gateway to invoke our Lambda function

Results

If we send a base64 pdf string as request to the API, we will recieve an array of base64 images.