PDFtoCover Instructions

Description

This plugin will create a cover image for a bibliographic record from the first page of the PDF file linked in 856$u.

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Installation

This plugin requires Koha 17.05 or higher.
To convert PDF files into images, this plugin uses the pdftocairo binary, found in the libcairo2-dev package. This plugin will not run without this package installed.

On Ubuntu/Debian :

sudo apt-get install poppler-utils

Interface

Instructions

Start the job by clicking on “Create thumbnail”.
Koha will display the number of records to process.
This number will be updated as records are processed until the job is complete.

Generation a single cover image

In the bibliographic record, click on “Generate cover image”. 

Note

If the record has more than one 856$u, only the first PDF will be used to create the cover image.