I recently came to know that NCERT was providing all the text books (class 1 – 12) for download. However, I found their interface hard to use for browsing through. So I wrote a crawler in python to get all the books to my webserver. Along with storing the books, I generated thumbnails for every [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2008
FOSSConf08 – A disappointment 2
I gave a talk at FOSSConf08 yesterday and came away feeling very disappointed and let down! It was a poorly organized event where total chaos prevailed. My friend Venkat and I found ourselves unable to show our presentation slides because of an overheating projector whose brightness could not out-match the sunlight coming in from the [...]
Categories: events
Tagged: , conference, event, experience, fossconf, presentation
Create PDF thumbnails using ImageMagick on Linux 7
I have a bunch of PDF files for which I wanted to generate thumbnails. On looking around a bit, I found “ImageMagick“. Since I have Ubuntu installed, I did sudo apt-get install imagemagick It is not too big a download at around 740KB. To create a thumbnails for all pages in the PDF document (say [...]
Categories: ubuntu
Tagged: graphics, imagemagick, linux, thumbnails, tools