PDF to JPG converter

This is a PDF to JPG Converter powered by Google Cloud Engine.

DISCLAIMER: Note that this project was updated with a pdf2jpg module (which leverages improves the conversion performance by parallel pdf to jpg conversion on multiple K8N nodes) on 5:40 PST December 15 2016

Build and Deployment

1. To build the application, execute:

   GCLOUD_PROJECT=??? GCLOUD_STORAGE_BUCKET=??? ./build.sh 
   

   The deployment uses kubectl which needs to be activated somehow. For instance, by running cloud container clusters get-credentials ...

2. Create Google Storage bucket

Description

Usage

1. Deploy the applications to the Kubernetes and
2. access the exposed address of the ui service such as http://104.197.108.252:8080/
3. Follow the instructions on the page and upload a PDF file
4. Download the resulting ZIP archive that contains JPEG files per each page of PDF

Design

Microservices:

1. UI
2. PDF Split (splits PDF per each page) + zipper and Google Cloud storage uploader
3. (UPDATED at 5:20 PST December 15 2016) Conversion (parallel conversion of a single page PDF to a JPG) per each