maschere / pdf2video

convert multi-page pdf animations to video

pdf2video

Convert multi-page PDF animations to H.264 video

Description

pdf2video is a light-weight command-line utility that uses PDFium and FFmpeg under the hood to render (almost) lossless H.264 videos from a multi-page PDF document.

Installation

Download the latest release, extract it somewhere in your user-folder and run pdf2video.exe from the command-line.

Usage

Command-line parameters are

 --pdf           Required. PDF File to convert to a video

 -o, --output    Required. video output file

 --ffmpeg        directory of ffmpeg executable

 --from          start conversion from this page (0 based index)

 --to            end conversion at (including) this page (0 based index)

 --res           (Default: 2048) desired width of the rendered (height calculated automatically)

 --frameTime     (Group: duration) time each frame is displayed in the video

 --duration      (Group: duration) duration of the entire converted video

 --frameRate     (Group: duration) framerate of the converted video (in FPS)

 --clipX         (Default: 0) relative clipping. left coordinate

 --clipY         (Default: 0) relative clipping. top coordinate

 --clipWidth     (Default: 1) relative clipping. width

 --clipHeight    (Default: 1) relative clipping. height

 --help          Display this help screen.

 --version       Display version information.

Building from source

Clone this repository and compile it using Visual Studio. Only tested under VS2019, Win10 x64 and .NET Framework 4.7.2