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Bash script that accepts a directory as its single argument and creates small PNG previews of the first page of all PDFs using ImageMagick. Applies to PDFs in given directory and its subdirectories.
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pdfpreviews.sh
#!/bin/bash
find $1 -type f -iname "*.pdf" -exec sh -c 'convert -density 100 -flatten "$1"[0] "$1".png' x {} \;
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