What is the best way of converting PDF to image in the .NET API?

[Ryan]

This forum post shows how to export to TIFF (but you can export to PNG/JPG) in-memory.

How to do PDF to TIFF in memory?

Question: I want to convert a PDF page to TIFF, but in memory, with no disk access. How can I do that? Answer: You can do that using the PDFDraw.Export(Page, Filter, String) API. Below is .NET 5+ example, though writing to disk for demo purposes. Note: This only does single page TIFF. If you want to generate a multi-page TIFF you need to use Convert.ToTiff which does write to disk. using (PDFDoc doc = new PDFDoc(input_path + "tiger.pdf")) { // for demo purpose, writing to disk var fs = n…

If the above does not work for you, then please elaborate on why disk access is an issue exactly, and why base64 is important.