I am trying to convert a PDF file and all its pages to png images.
I have put together the code below filling the example on this thread How to convert PDF to PNG efficiently?
When I run the code, it crashes on the pdf file source (sourceURL
) there is definitely a file there. and when I print sourceURl
it prints the URL to the file.
The crash says it found nil
- My understanding is that means it could not find the file? even though I can physically see and open the file and also print the URL
to the file.
Can someone point out what I'm doing wrong?
Code:
func convertPDFtoPNG() {
let sourceURL = pptURL
print("pptURL:", pptURL!)
let destinationURL = pngURL
let urls = try? convertPDF(at: sourceURL!, to: destinationURL!, fileType: .png, dpi: 200)
}
func convertPDF(at sourceURL: URL, to destinationURL: URL, fileType: ImageFileType, dpi: CGFloat = 200) throws -> [URL] {
let pdfDocument: CGPDFDocument! = CGPDFDocument(sourceURL as CFURL)! //Thread 1: Fatal error: Unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value
let colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB()
let bitmapInfo = CGImageAlphaInfo.noneSkipLast.rawValue
var urls = [URL](repeating: URL(fileURLWithPath : "/"), count: pdfDocument.numberOfPages)
DispatchQueue.concurrentPerform(iterations: pdfDocument.numberOfPages) { i in
let pdfPage = pdfDocument.page(at: i + 1)!
let mediaBoxRect = pdfPage.getBoxRect(.mediaBox)
let scale = dpi / 72.0
let width = Int(mediaBoxRect.width * scale)
let height = Int(mediaBoxRect.height * scale)
let context = CGContext(data: nil, width: width, height: height, bitsPerComponent: 8, bytesPerRow: 0, space: colorSpace, bitmapInfo: bitmapInfo)!
context.interpolationQuality = .high
context.fill(CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: width, height: height))
context.scaleBy(x: scale, y: scale)
context.drawPDFPage(pdfPage)
let image = context.makeImage()!
let imageName = sourceURL.deletingPathExtension().lastPathComponent
let imageURL = destinationURL.appendingPathComponent("\(imageName)-Page\(i+1).\(fileType.fileExtention)")
let imageDestination = CGImageDestinationCreateWithURL(imageURL as CFURL, fileType.uti, 1, nil)!
CGImageDestinationAddImage(imageDestination, image, nil)
CGImageDestinationFinalize(imageDestination)
urls[i] = imageURL
}
return urls
}
Make sure that your pptURL
is file url.
URL(string: "path/to/pdf")
and URL(fileURLWithPath: "path/to/pdf")
are different things and you must use the last one while initiating your url.
The output should start with "file:///" prefix, f.e.
file:///Users/dev/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/4FF18699-D82F-4308-88D6-44E3C11C955A/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/8F230041-AC15-45D9-863F-5778B565B12F/myApp.app/example.pdf